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Kepercayaan dari orang yang tidak bersalah adalah alat yang paling berguna bagi pembohong.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

And poets, in my view, and I think the view of most people, do speak God's language - it's better, it's finer, it's language on a higher plane than ordinary people speak in their daily lives.

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

Sedapat mungkin aku tidak melakukan keduanya, yaitu membuat alur cerita dan berbohong. Cerita itu terjadi dengan sendirinya, tugas penulis adalah membiarkan cerita itu berkembang.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

Kepercayaan dari orang-orang lugu adalah alat yang paling berguna bagi pembohong.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Dan di kehidupan nyata, akhir tidak selalu baik, baik itu akhir yang bahagia ataupun akhir yang menyedihkan.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Aku mengenali teror sebagai emosi paling baik dan begitupun aku akan mencoba untuk menteror pembaca. Tapi jika aku menemukan sesuatu yang aku tidak bisa takutkan, aku akan mencoba untuk menakuti, dan jika aku tidak bisa menaku-nakuti, aku akan membuat sesuatu yang jelek. Aku tidak bangga.

Suara setan manis untuk didengar.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

Tulislah apa yang kau ketahui seluas dan sedalam mungkin.

Fiction is the truth inside the lie.