Robert Cormier

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1925-01-17

Quotes by Robert Cormier

• Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

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• The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

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• They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

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• He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

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• They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

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• He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

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• The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

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• Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

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

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• 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 it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55.

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

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• 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 do it better, find the exact word, the apt phrase, the leaping simile.

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