"I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it."

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"I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it."

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"I mean, they censor your work when they're scared of it."

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"Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating."

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"I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever."

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"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."

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"Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing."

Time, Jazz, Writing

"Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know."

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"And I'm working at trying to find a kind of language where I won't be so easily modulated by expectation."

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Jane Austen, British Writer

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Oscar Wilde, Irish Dramatist

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"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Anne Rice, American Novelist

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"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

Samuel Butler, British Poet

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"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."

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"Some of the stuff about Yogi energy is really fascinating."

"I think it's really important to find out why people hurt you or try to oppose you or whatever."

"First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic."

"Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing."

"Traveling around I don't think people are that horrible, I think they just don't know."

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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

"People are lucky and unlucky not according to what they get absolutely, but according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been led to expect."

"Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public."