"Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement."

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"I do not think I have ever seen a nastier-looking man... Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist. [on Brit poet Percy Wyndham Lewis]"

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"In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings."

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"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

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"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive."

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"Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool."

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"Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid."

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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

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"And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create."

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