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People who grew up on my books are now able to get the point across to others that they're worth reading.
- I Think
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I think I built my reputation by not worrying about it.
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A lot of friends I went to school with were criminals.
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I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first story - about my dog, of course.
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I write what I hear.
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I used to just sit down and read the dictionary, and I read the Bible and Shakespeare from cover to cover.
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I was a house dad. Once, my wife was working as a dispatcher at the fire department, and I was staying home and writing while baby-sitting my son, who hardly ever slept. So I wrote in twenty-minute patches. Some of that early stuff is just dreadful. I got a thousand rejects.
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I turned out to be a tough, smart kid.
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My mother wanted me to be a reader. She was a reader. Even though she had an 11th-grade education, she was curious about all kinds of things - archeology, anthropology.
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My father had the most horrible racist rhetoric you ever heard, but he treated people all the same. I remember this rainstorm. A car broke down with these black people in it, and nobody would stop. My dad was a mechanic. He fixed the car for nothing. I remember looking at him when he got back in. He said, 'Well, they got those kids in the car.'
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My father always encouraged me to get an education, but he was also a guy that, when he was younger, had ridden the rails from town to town to box and wrestle for money.
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