Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. "

Related Quotes:

" A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. "

" That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals. "

" I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time. "

" It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost. "

" If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. "

" But I think there are a set of experiences that turn a potential writer into a working writer, and then there are places in your life were you start to recognize what you want to do. "

" Fiction is the truth inside the lie. "

" I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. "

" And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings. "

" The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. "

" The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. "

" God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live. "

" Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process. "

" We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones. "

" He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on? "

" The devil's voice is sweet to hear. "

" We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. "

" Each life makes its own immitation of immortality. "

" This is not a bad life. "

" The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet. "

" I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become. "

" We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed. "

" I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. "

" And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react. "

" You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. "

" Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read. "

" Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us. "

" People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk. "

" Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. "

" I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. "