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We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

Kita akan berpikir mengenai seberapa pintar kita sebenarnya. Tapi aku rasa talenta sebagai penulis sudah ditakdirkan, semua sudah ada disana, paling tidak unsur dasar dari hal itu. Kamu tidak bisa merubahnya lebih dari kamu mampu memilih untuk menjadi kidal atau tidak.

Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

After the 9/11 apocalypse happened in New York City, people, particularly New Yorkers, who breathed in the ash, or saw the results of that, have a tendency to keep seeing echoes and having flashbacks to it.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

Duka sejati sama jarangnya dengan cinta sejati.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

Bahasa perancis adalah bahasa yang mengubah kotoran menjadi romansa.