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"And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book."
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"Silence is the best music when you are in need of silence and music is the best silence when you are in need of music!"
"The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness."
"Answer only when asked, otherwise do not say anything. Don't say a thing in this world. To tell [give advice] is the biggest disease. Your beard grows without you saying anything, doesn't it?"
"In this world, there is no such sternness like that of maintaining silence. Verbal sternness will be wasted."
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"It's very liberating for me to realize that I don't have to step up to the plate with a plot that involves the U.N. Security Council."
"If you're interested in how people behave, if you're interested in the way they talk about themselves, the way the conceive of themselves, it's very hard to ignore drugs nowadays, because that is so much part of the conversation."
"I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second."
"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."
"It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated."
"I was unwise enough to actually mention this in public a few times, and in fact to point out that there were two versions of the book now. One of them had somebody else's name on the cover, one had my name on the cover."
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