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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.
Robert Cormier
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Robert Cormier
Age: 75 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 17
Died: 2000
Died: November 2
Author
Journalist
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Bay State
Robert Edmund Cormier
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Mother
Jerry
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Buried
Sadness
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Standing
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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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There are moments that stop the heart, that catch the breath, that halt the beat of blood in your veins, and you are suspended in time, held between life and death, and you wait for something to bring you back again.
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Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.
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I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.
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You have to accept the critical reviews if they treat you with respect. Actually, it's one person's opinion. So, it's a concern but not an overriding one, and I don't stay up nights worrying about reviews. But there are certain people I respect who I hope will like a book.
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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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A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.
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It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.
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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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The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon. You can always do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.
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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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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
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...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.
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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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There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.
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He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.
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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 had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.
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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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Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?
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