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

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

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

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