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They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it happens to be their thing, too.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

Go get your bus, square boy.

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

They murdered him.

Happiness is a way of traveling and not a destination

Pluck my heart
From my flesh
And eat it.....

He closed the locker quickly so no one would see the damage. For some reason, he felt ashamed.

Nothing glamorous like the write-ups in the papers or the newsreels. We weren't heroes. We were only there ...

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

Eric Poole began with cats. Or, to be more exact, kittens.

Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument.

Eat my heart
Chew it hard
Swallow my soul, too

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.

I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

And he did see
that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

A smile for all the stupid people out there with bleeding hearts for serial killers.

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

The cheese stands alone
The cheese stands alone
Heigh-ho the merry-o
The cheese stands alone

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there.

That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.

I'm weary of the battle. But a tired fighter can still be a fighter.

It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

There was nothing more beautiful in the world than the sight of a teacher getting upset.

Pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

People throw the word love around like confetti when they actually mean affection.

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.