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"Don't be ashamed of your ignorance, be ashamed of your unwillingness to overcome it."

"We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree."

"In the arena of life, so many lessons are taught but few are taken and few are applied."

"A person is the product of his learning. What he learns and how he interprets it is what he becomes."
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"Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others."

"If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself."

"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development."

"I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't."

"Some people just don't seem to understand the concept of fiction. It is fiction; it ain't true, folks."

"I like conventions. I like meeting and greeting. I'm perched on that edge where I'm getting more attention than I quite know what to do with, though."

"I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print."

"Give a truly good person power, and they're still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they're still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn't evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don't always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside."
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