“I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.”
Dad
“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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“You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.”
Hope“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“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“God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.”
God“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 guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.”
Funny“The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”
Trust“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
Truth“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“Only enemies speak the truth friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.”
Truth“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“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“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“And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.”
Sad“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“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“I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.”
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