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4391 Novelist Quotes

People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.

Always Ask Books Days
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I have a great office.

Great Office
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'

Adult Like Lot Things
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It's my job, too, to keep up with pop culture and what the kids are into 'cause you don't want to sound like an old man trying to write for kids. I spend a lot of my time spying on them.

Cause Culture Job Keep
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So many people in their 20s and 30s, on Twitter, say 'Please write something for us,' so I have to listen to them, they're my audience.

Audience Listen Many People
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When I write for kids, I have to make sure they know what can't happen. They have to know it's a fantasy. But when I write for adults, they have to think it's real. Every detail has to be real or they won't buy it.

Adult BeReal Buy Detail
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I read everywhere. I read every day. I read on the couch with my dog in the afternoon and at night. I try to read at least two to three hours a day. I read only fiction.

Afternoon Couch Day Dog
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I started writing when I was 9 years old. I was like this weird kid who would just stay in my room, typing little funny magazines and drawing comic strips.

Comic ComicStrips Drawing Funny
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I always just wanted to be funny. I never really planned to be scary.
Always Funny Just Never
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I haven't written a young-adult book in years. I'm also doing six 'Goosebumps' books a year now.

Also Book Books Doing
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I'm a total Disney freak. I want to live in Disney World.

Disney Freak Live Total
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.

About After Everything ILove
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I drive a lot in the summertime, but after that, I don't drive if there's snow predicted for anywhere in 500 miles.

After Anywhere Drive Lot
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A real New Yorker likes the sound of a garbage truck in the morning.

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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

Always Because Day Distraction
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I should be concentrating on writing pages

Concentrating Pages Should Writing
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Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

Book Normally Outline Spend
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Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.

Before Believe Day Every
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I've made myself laugh from some ideas - but I've never scared myself.

Ideas Laugh Made Myself
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I've never dreamed of a story idea. I have such boring dreams.

Boring Dreamed Dreams Idea
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I feel that good fantasy will always be in demand. I think children especially need literature that helps them escape from the real world, which is very scary to them right now.

Always Children Demand Escape
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Kids think you just sit down and start writing. I always tell them you never do that.

Always Down Just Kids
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Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.
Footing Laugh Lose Man
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People think love is an emotion. Love is good sense.
Emotion Good Good Sense Love
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You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Case Go Going Lead
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You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Be Strong Funny Really See
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Fascism wants Baptism coast to coast.

Baptism Coast Fascism Wants
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I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

Going Nixon Out Think
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I was raised a Christian and was a stone-faced acid head.

Acid Christian Head I Was Raised
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I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Been Concerts Dead Holes
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If grass were legalized, it would help our drug problem enormously.

Grass Help Our Problem
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If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

Behind Conservative Land Why
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It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

Any Certain Certain Point More
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Leary can get a part of my mind that's kind of rusted shut grinding again, just by being around him and talking.

Again Around Being Get
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Listen, wait, and be patient. Every shaman knows you have to deal with the fire that's in your audience's eye.

Audience Be Patient Deal Every
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Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Death Does In The Past Love
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Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.

About America Better Get
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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Been Burn Destroy Else
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People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.

Because Fabric Get High
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Ritual is necessary for us to know anything.
Anything Know Necessary Ritual
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The '60s aren't over; they won't be over until the Fat Lady gets high.

Fat Gets High Lady
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The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

Broke Frontiers Largely Still
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The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.
Fun Fundamentalists Mental Out
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The Grateful Dead are our religion. This is a religion that doesn't pay homage to the God that all the other religions pay homage to.

Dead God Grateful Grateful Dead
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The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

Apart Check Christian Consciousness
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The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.
Cruelty Mercy Truth With
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There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.

Circle Crops England Enigma
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There's something about taking a plow and breaking new ground. It gives you energy.

About Breaking Energy Gives
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Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

Best Ever Intricate Piece
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When Shakespeare was writing, he wasn't writing for stuff to lie on the page; it was supposed to get up and move around.

Around Get He Lie
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