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" My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast. "

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" Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. "

" I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent. "

" I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before. "

" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "

" Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. "

" I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. "

" Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. "

" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "

" Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. "

" I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. "

" In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience. "

" A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. "

" I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. "

" Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate. "

" One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong. "

" Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. "

" I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society. "

" If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. "

" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "

" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "

" Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. "

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "

" If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. "

" I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. "

" There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. "

" Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. "

" I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work. "

" I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. "

" We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away. "