- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate the term 'work-life balance.' I think it's a setup, and it's trap for all of us.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
The older books were quite light-hearted. But I think most of my novels do end on a deep note of pessimism. Shadows seem to be closing in. The final conclusion isn't that life is wonderful and everything is bright and cheery and in the garden.
- Hate
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I hate any food trends.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been to a couple of restaurants in L.A. that were so loud, I left there with a sore throat; you literally could not have a conversation. I think it's very deliberate: There's this idea that somehow it's more fun if there's a roar in the room.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved being at the 'Times,' and they were incredibly good to me. I think it's a wonderful paper, and I was really well edited.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think there's one thing more important you can do for your kids than have family dinner.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that reading is always active. As a writer, you can only go so far; the reader meets you halfway, bringing his or her own experience to bear on everything you've written. What I mean is that it is not only the writer's memory that filters experience, but the reader's as well.
- Nov 07, 2020
I try, and I think I succeed, in making my readers feel pity for my psychopaths, because I do.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think about death every day - what it would be like, why it would happen to me. It would be humiliating to be afraid.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't find writing easy. That is because I do take great care: I rewrite a lot. If anything is sort of clumsy and not possible to read aloud to oneself, which I think one should do... it doesn't work.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suspense is my thing. I think I am able to make people want to keep turning pages. They want to know what happens. So I can do that.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It makes me actually quite angry to think about people writing about torture with a sort of relish. Horrible.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020