“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”
God
“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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“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“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“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.”
Fear“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
Trust“Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
Truth“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“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
Hope“I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.”
Home“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“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“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.”
Politics“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“I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.”
Funny“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“I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.”
Dad“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“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
Truth“Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.”
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