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One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
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Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
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I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
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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.
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
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I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
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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.
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
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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.
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A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
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When tempest tossed, embrace chaos.
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Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
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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.
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Never, never try to scope the market.
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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.
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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.
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
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What we do as a society is seek simple answers.
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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.
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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.
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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 think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
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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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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
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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.
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I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.
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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.
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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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