Robert Cormier Quotes

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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…
• I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.
• I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.
• We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft…
• I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
• I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.
• There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether…
• You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.
• I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
• My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people.…
• I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.
• 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 always…
• 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 have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
• It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.
• It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.
• The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good…
• That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.
• Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.
• 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.…

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