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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life. - Author object (148)

It is the tale, not he who tells it. - Author object (148)

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there...and still on your feet. - Author object (148)

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work. - Author object (148)

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window. - Author object (148)

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters. - Author object (148)

When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope. - Author object (148)

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries. - Author object (148)

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness. - Author object (148)

In many cases when a reader puts a story aside because it 'got boring,' the boredom arose because the writer grew enchanted with his powers of description and lost sight of his priority, which is to keep the ball rolling. - Author object (148)

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. - Author object (148)

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. - Author object (148)

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't. - Author object (148)

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame. - Author object (148)

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. - Author object (148)

Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home. - Author object (148)

Nobody likes a clown at midnight - Author object (148)

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability to remember every scar. - Author object (148)

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty. - Author object (148)

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. - Author object (148)