Mind Quotes by Robert Cormier

“Eric Poole began with cats. Or, to be more exact, kittens.”

— Robert Cormier

...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

— Robert Cormier

It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not…

— Robert Cormier

I don't like to think in terms of writing ten or twelve pages a day. Usually I'm writing a scene, and it's always with…

— Robert Cormier

“Mr. Sinclair once asked the class to make a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language, and the only word…

— Robert Cormier

The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them…

— Robert Cormier

“He was afraid that his body would come loose, all his bones spilling out like a building collapsing, like a picket fence clattering apart.”

— Robert Cormier

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

— Robert Cormier

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.…

— Robert Cormier

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…

— Robert Cormier

That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.

— Robert Cormier

“They tell you to do your own thing but they don't mean it. They don't want you to do your thing, not unless it…

— Robert Cormier

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

— Robert Cormier

You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

— Robert Cormier

“We just might make a quarterback out of you yet, you skinny little son of a bitch.”

— Robert Cormier