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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.

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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...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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Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there.
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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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I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.
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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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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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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
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A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.
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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'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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Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
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