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"It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to."
"Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it."
"To the devil with false modesty."
"I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life."
"I write to find out what I think."
"Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man."
"Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in."
"The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun."
"I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."
"A person can go along quite awhile if they get a good day every once and again."
"I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world."
"Your pimples are the Lord's way of chastising you. Now eat your pie."
"I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside."
"I always felt that organized religion was just basically a theological insurance scam where they're saying if you spend time with us, guess what, you're going to live forever, you're going to go to some other plain where you're going to be so happy, you'll just be happy all the time, which is also kind of a scary idea to me."
"We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not."
"You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives"
"All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine."
"Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?"
"God always punishes us for what we can't imagine."
"As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style."