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" 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. "

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

" In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. "

" I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. "

" I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

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

" If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people. "

" 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. "

" Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. "

" The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. "

" 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. "

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

" Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. "

" Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. "

" I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. "

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

" What we do as a society is seek simple answers. "

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

" The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. "

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

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

" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "

" I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. "

" I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. "

" 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. "

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