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"If one book's done this well, you want to write another one that does just as well. There's that horror of the second novel that doesn't match up."
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"All right. Here's the deal, bigshot: suck my cock. Do that and I'll let you go. Straight trade."He unzipped his fly and pulled down the elastic front of his shorts. Something that looked like a dead whitesnake fell out. Johnny observed the thin stream of blood driz-zling from it without surprise. The cop was bleeding from every other orifice, wasn't he?"Speaking in the literature sense," the cop said, grinning, "this particular blowjob is going to be a little more Anne Rice than Armistead Maupin. I suggest you follow Queen Victoria's advice - close your eyes and think of strawberry shortcake."
"This inhuman place makes human monsters."
"Probably I share a lot of stuff I haven't count them exactly but probably you understand the few. Why???Let me guess that you don't understand horror you take it like horror nothing else, I can tell you horror isn't really a horror. It's a lesson, but can you find it in this puzzle?? Or riddle?"
"Motivation???- Horror is nice one!- Creepypasta is an example for such genre."
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"I am atheist in a very religious mould. I'm always asking myself the big questions. Where did we come from? Is there a meaning to all of this? When I find myself in church, I edit the hymns as I sing them."
"From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness."
"Bore children, and they stop reading. There's no room for self-indulgence or showing off or setting the scene."
"At 20, 25, 30, we begin to realise that the possibilities of escape are getting fewer. We have jobs, children, partners, debts. This is the part of us to which literary fiction speaks."
"The one thing you have to do if you write a book is put yourself in someone else's shoes. The reader's shoes. You've got to entertain them."
"There's something with the physical size of America... American writers can write about America and it can still feel like a foreign country."
"I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier."
"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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