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"All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street."
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"Maybe our telling of the story wasn't as clear as it should have been, but I don't think that's true. In terms of understanding the story, it comes across."
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"We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be."
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"Thomas Builds-the-Fire's stories climbed into your clothes like sad, gave you itches that could not be scratched. If you repeated eve a sentence from one of those stories, your throat was never the same again. Those stories hung in your clothes and hair like smoke, and no amount of laundry soap or shampoo washed them out. Victor and Junior often tried to beat those stories out of Thomas, tied him down and taped his mouth shut. They pretended to be friendly and tried to sweet talk Thomas into temporary silences, made promises about beautiful Indian women and cases of Diet Pepsi. But none of that stopped Thomas, who talked and talked."
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"Other people's stories may become part of your own, the foundation of it, the ground it goes on."
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"People shouldn't just talk about you, they should tell your tales."
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"My life is my book, but I can't read it."
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"The best stories will come from jail, the people which are in the prison, also and from the victims."
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"We know how it ends practically before it starts. That s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack"."
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"Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation."
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"Films are about entering the world from distance... little being part of all people, series are all about entering the whole world with both feet... being part of all main characters or not only the main... but the killers... victims."
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Explore more quotes by Robert Cormier
"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
Books
"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
Censorship
"All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street."
Story
"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."
Life
"I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations."
People
"My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus."
People
"I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are."
Mind
"The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile."
Time
"I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper."
Time
"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
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