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The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.

You have to stay faithful to what you're working on.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

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.

Ketika seorang penulis hanya menunggu, maka sebenarnya ia belum menjadi dirinya sendiri.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

Aku sulit untuk berkawan. Aku bukanlah seseorang yang suka dengan kehidupan sosial. Bukan penyendiri. Dan itu menyelamatkan hidupku, menyelamatkan kemurnianku. Hal itu dan tulisanku. Tapi sampai hari ini, aku tidak mempercayai siapapun yang mengatakan waktu sekolah merupakan waktu yang baik. Siapapun.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.

Aku rasa ketika kamu tidak melalui jalan utama, kamu harus siap untuk melihat beberapa rumah yang lucu.

Banyak dari kita tumbuh dan kita tumbuh dari interpretasi literal yangt kita dapatkan ketika kita kecil yaitu kita menanggung luka sepanjang hidup kita. Baik luka yang indah ataupun luka yang buruk, itu semua jelas terlihat di mata orang-orang yang melihatnya.

Aku menulis setiap hari, termasuk hari libur. Aku termasuk pecandu kerja.

Kamu tidak bisa menolak tawa; ketika tawa datang, ia akan tetap berada di tempat favoritmu dan berdiam selama yang dia mau.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.