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"Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published."
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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."

"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."

"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
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"If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story."

"People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's."

"I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career."

"I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun."

"I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings."

"I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys."

"I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up."
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