We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.

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There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me...

There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me...

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre,...

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre,...

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great...

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great...

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil...

Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil...

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I...

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I...

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear...

Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear...

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more...

Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more...

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no...

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no...

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to...

Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to...

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled....

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled....

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that...

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that...

Never, never try to scope the market.

Never, never try to scope the market.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and...

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and...

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale...

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale...

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it...

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it...

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're...

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're...

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud....

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud....