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If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

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If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

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My personal theory is that younger audiences disdain books - not because those readers are dumber than past readers, but because today's reader is smarter.

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People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

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I have a lot of fans who are in the prison system, where ramen noodles are a kind of staple. Prisoners are always sending me recipes.

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We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.

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Maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.

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Give me rampant intellectualism as a coping mechanism.

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The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.

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I have a lot of money.

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I think in a way, you're doomed, once you can envision something. You're sort of doomed to make it happen. I've found that the moment I can envision leaving a relationship, that's usually the moment that the relationship starts to fall apart.

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Few things in life seem more sexy than a banned book.

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My books are all fantastically sentimental.

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Masochism is a valuable job skill.

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Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

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What we don't understand we can make mean anything.

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More and more, it feels like I'm doing a really bad impersonation of myself.

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Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.

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Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

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If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that's much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.

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I'm only confrontational with my friends.

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If we all lived according to the teachings of Jesus Christ, life would be much simpler.

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I've got two dogs; they're Boston terriers, and they're allowed everywhere.

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David Fincher is a genius.

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People said that 'Fight Club' would be impossible to turn into a movie, but I think David Fincher loved that challenge.

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I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

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Of the big horror movies of the '70s, you have 'The Omen,' 'The Sentinel,' 'Rosemary's Baby,' 'The Stepford Wives,' 'Burnt Offerings' - these are all romantic fatalist movies where there's a sort of glimmer of hope... but darkness wins.

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Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.

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We don't have friends, so we watch 'Friends' on TV.

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What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

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We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax.

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I thought 'Fight Club' was great as David Fincher's version.

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As a lower-class kid, I was raised to think success would be owning stuff. Having that great job, too. Now I find my parents' dream was wrong. You never really own anything. And you're never really finished as a person.

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In almost all my work, I try to re-invent Christian images and stories and themes. You'd be amazed by the letters I get from young Christians who recognise this and enjoy it.

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I try to tell a story the way someone would tell you a story in a bar, with the same kind of timing and pacing.

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The act of writing is a way of tricking yourself into revealing something that you would never consciously put into the world. Sometimes I'm shocked by the deeply personal things I've put into books without realizing it.

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