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Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world. — Victor LaValle

That most natural human appetite, the hunger for somewhere else. — Victor LaValle

The devil that stayed with me most vividly was the one from the cover of Iron Maiden's 'Number of the Beast' album. — Victor LaValle

There were others who would have called him a scammer, a swindler, a con, but he never thought of himself this way. No good charlatan ever did. — Victor LaValle

People use the notion of God to bully people and hurt people, when we can use the concept to respect and uplift. — Victor LaValle

His life had been disrupted, but not his billing cycles. — Victor LaValle

In the end, what's any good reader really hoping for? That spark. That spell. That journey. — Victor LaValle

Stupid people had a few authors in common: Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Danielle Steel. What nonsense. Such dreck. — Victor LaValle

My three obsessions are mental illness, horror and religion. — Victor LaValle

'Dark Gods,' T. E. D. Klein's book of four novellas, felt like a godsend - even if it came from a deformed god, one that lurked beneath our sidewalks. — Victor LaValle

No matter where you go, poor people have the capacity to endure. Some people even compliment us on it, as if endurance is all we can achieve. — Victor LaValle

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure. — Victor LaValle

'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh. — Victor LaValle

There are people who say life is dull. Just a series of mundane events. But I can't agree. Things happen. Bet on that. — Victor LaValle

No one ever knows if a book is good until they read the book. — Victor LaValle

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys. — Victor LaValle

This wasn't about an infraction, but dictating a philosophy of life: certain types of people must be overseen. — Victor LaValle

In fiction, it's a big challenge to keep the reader in one place for so long. — Victor LaValle

Lumpy and lazy; I aspired to lethargy. In the second year of university, I missed half my classes just because I couldn't pull myself out of bed. — Victor LaValle

Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly. — Victor LaValle

The horror genre is vast and full of brilliance. Stephen King, Shirley Jackson, Herman Melville, the book of Esther. I'll happily join that list. — Victor LaValle

If you haven't caused a scene in a psych unit, it's just because you haven't been inside long enough. — Victor LaValle

Seeing America by bus is like touring the Louvre in a Porta Potti. — Victor LaValle

I spend lots of time on the Web, some of it even useful. — Victor LaValle

I had a pretty bad time when I was an undergraduate at Cornell University. I failed out of school. I was much, much heavier. — Victor LaValle

That did not go well," LaValle said when Entreri had left. "It went splendidly!" Pook disagreed. — R.A. Salvatore

I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview. — Victor LaValle

The journalistic endeavor - at least theoretically - is grounded in objectivity. The goal is to get you to understand what happened, when and to whom. — Victor LaValle

His name is Robert Paulson. — Victor LaValle

It's tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy. — Victor LaValle

Time alone is pornography for people with families. — Victor LaValle

You had to be rich to risk looking broke. The — Victor LaValle

I've spent my life visiting a handful of people who are very close to me when they've been committed to one hospital or another in New York. — Victor LaValle

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death. — Victor LaValle

Don't focus on the mishaps; consider the pleasures instead. — Victor LaValle

I'd read at a much higher-than-average grade level since, well, grade school. — Victor LaValle

People who move to New York always the same mistake. They can't see the place. — Victor LaValle

I know that many authors say editors don't edit anymore, but that's not been true in my experience. — Victor LaValle

When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction. — Victor LaValle

Since Queens is the most ethnically diverse plot of land on Earth, we had tenants from all over the globe. The whole world in one building. — Victor LaValle

Writing to corroborate what you already think is the essence of bad writing. — Victor LaValle

Try imagining James Joyce not writing about being a Catholic. — Victor LaValle

Give people what they expect and you can take from them all that you need. They — Victor LaValle

No person can do this or that to keep another from being truly free. We are always free. Even if imprisoned. — Leigh LaValle

Oppression doesn't make people noble. Give any of us a little comfort, and we'll kill to keep it. The despised become despicable. — Victor LaValle

Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives. — Victor LaValle

This was one benefit of being a grown man and not a kid: I wanted to impress this woman, but not to the point of getting myself killed. — Victor LaValle

A little style is a good thing, but you can't trust a person who won't be ugly in front of you. — Victor LaValle

Becoming unremarkable, invisible, compliant--these were useful tricks for a black man in a white neighborhood. Survival techniques. — Victor LaValle

Dig if you will a picture: — Victor LaValle

It's easier to hold onto a bad idea if you never share it, and it's harder to defend one if you let it out. — Victor LaValle

The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare. — Victor LaValle

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men. — Victor LaValle

The success of any society must be judged by the life of its worst off. No other calculation will do. — Victor LaValle

Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves. — Victor LaValle

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent. — Victor LaValle

I don't know what to say about the hygiene of the male species. — Victor LaValle

She was in college, a time of optimistic fascism when it seems that all the world needs is one more rally. — Victor LaValle

Taken together the Internet reads like the grandest character-driven novel humanity has ever known. Not much plot though. — Victor LaValle

Maybe nobody ever saw themselves completely objectively. Every self-image needs a flattering mirror or two. — Victor LaValle

The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated. — Victor LaValle

I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate. — Victor LaValle

I'll take Cthulhu over you devils any day. — Victor LaValle

You can't write a story about a mental hospital in the United States without facing the grand example of 'Cuckoo's Nest.' — Victor LaValle

Fuck the meek. The despised will inherit the earth! — Victor LaValle

What was indifference compared to malice? — Victor LaValle