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" When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. "

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" Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. "

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" I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. "

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

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

" 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. "

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

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

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

" 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. "

" Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life. "

" Never, never try to scope the market. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow. "

" Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "