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Robert Cormier
Age: 75 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 17
Died: 2000
Died: November 2
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Journalist
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Bay State
Robert Edmund Cormier
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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.
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You hope that people read your book and say Yes, this is the way it is or could be. But then you have no way of knowing until the reader reads the book. Actually, the critical response doesn't worry me. I've had very few reviews that have upset me.
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Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.
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Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.
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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
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I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.
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I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're writing something for themselves.
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We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become obsessive to a particular person.
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They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.
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I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to compensate.
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I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
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It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.
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A terrific sadness swept over Jerry. As if somebody had died. The way he felt standing in the cemetry that day they buried his mother. And nothing you could do about it.
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A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.
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You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.
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I'm always telling myself as I write that I'm not really writing a novel I'm just going to fool around with a character or an idea.
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Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?
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I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end - a resolution. The modern novels I read don't always deliver because I'm looking essentially for a story. As in Shakespeare, The play's the thing. In particular I read detective stories for pacing, plot and suspense.
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Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he'd always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.
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Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
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