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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.
Robert Cormier
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Robert Cormier
Age: 75 †
Born: 1925
Born: January 17
Died: 2000
Died: November 2
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Bay State
Robert Edmund Cormier
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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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I sometimes get tired because I can seldom read a book for pleasure. I'm like the play reviewer who happens to go to a play on an off day and can't help but view it critically.
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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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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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They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.
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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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I don't mean to be insolent. I'm truthful. I tell the truth and the truth sometimes hurts. For instance, you have bad breath, Lieutenant. I can smell it from here. It must offend a lot of people. That's the truth. But how many people have told you that? Instead, they either lie or try to avoid your company.
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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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Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.
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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 can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.
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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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...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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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 have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
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A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.
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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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