“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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“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”
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“Well, I'm like a drug addict, I'm always saying I'm going to stop, and then I don't, what I've said consistently is that I hope I know when to stop: when it starts to get repetitive.”
Hope“I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.”
Movies“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.”
Change“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”
God“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.”
God“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.”
Change“Talent in cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
Work“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.”
God“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.”
Beauty“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.”
Imagination“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
Truth“When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'”
Family“French is the language that turns dirt into romance.”
Romantic“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.”
Education“Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.”
Good“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.”
Good“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
Trust“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”
Sad“I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.”
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