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…

— 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…

— Robert Cormier

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

— Robert Cormier

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

— Robert Cormier

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

— 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…

— 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.…

— Robert Cormier

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

— 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…

— 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

“The Goober was beautiful when he ran. His long arms and legs moved flowingly and flawlessly, his body floating as if his…

— Robert Cormier

He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a…

— Robert Cormier

I read a lot of detective stories because they always deliver. They give you a beginning, a middle, and an end -…

— Robert Cormier

“Eat my heart Chew it hard Swallow my soul, too”

— Robert Cormier

“Was this all there was to life, after all? You finished school, found an occupation, got married, became a father, watched your…

— Robert Cormier

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

— Robert Cormier

“I wonder if it's a special sin to lie to a nun”

— Robert Cormier

Salinger is such a terrific writer; he did so many great things. He is one of those writers that I still reread,…

— Robert Cormier

I'm weary of the battle. But a tired fighter can still be a fighter.

— Robert Cormier

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be…

— Robert Cormier