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

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

" 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. "

" It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously. "

" 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. "

" Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination. "

" Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in. "

" 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. "

" I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish. "

" What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts. "

" 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. "

" 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? "

" I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts. "

" Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work. "

" Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.' "

" When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' "

" After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it. "

" Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" Fiction is the truth inside the lie. "