Robert Cormier Quotes

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

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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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You see Carter, people are two things: greedy and cruel. So we have a perfect set-up here. The greed part - a kid pays a buck for a chance to win a hundred. Plus fifty boxes of chocolates. The cruel part - watching two guys hitting each other, maybe hurting each other, while they're safe in the bleachers. That's why it works, Carter, because we're all bastards.

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They murdered him.

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Don't miss the bus, boy. You're missing a lot of things in the world, better not miss that bus.

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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. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

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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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I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

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