"And this wasn’t lying, not really. It was leaving out."
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"As it happened, all three of us turned out to be real writers--a coincidence almost too large to be termed mere coincidence in a society where literally tens of thousands (maybe hundreds of thousands) of college students aspire to the writer's trade and where bare hundreds actually break through."
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"He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge."
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"Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us."
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"Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is to run through with your head down, and everybody gets to take a swing. They hit you in the head, the back, the ass, and the balls."
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"...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then pull them in and keep them turning the pages."
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"Of all the questions I'm asked, the most difficult is, "How does it feel to be famous?" Since I'm not, that question always catches me with a feeling of surrealism....I've got three kids and I've changed all their diapers, and when it's two o'clock in the morning and you're changing something that's sort of special delivery with one eye open and one eye shut you don't feel famous."
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"It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns."
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"Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes."
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"I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world."
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"Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend"
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"The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution."
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"Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us."
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"For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid."
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"Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart."
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"So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER!"
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"A short story is like a kiss in the dark."
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"A secret needs two faces to bounce between; a secret needs to see itself in another pair of eyes."
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"But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe."
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"Writing good dialogue is art as well as craft."
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