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

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.

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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.

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No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.

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

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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.

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The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

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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.

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Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

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Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

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

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

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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.

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He had a massive stroke. He died with his tie on. Do you think that could be our generation's equivalent of that old saying about dying with your boots on?

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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

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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.

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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.

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

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Fiction is the truth inside the lie.

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Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

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Get busy living, or get busy dying.

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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.

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

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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

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I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

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God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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This is not a bad life.

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