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Once you started eating shit, it had a way of becoming your regular diet.
Traces of the writers one reads in one’s formative years remain, but the rhythm of each writer’s thoughts – an expression of his or her very brainwaves, I think – eventually becomes dominant.
’Salem’s Lot was written under the influence of James Dickey’s poetry, and if Rose Madder sounds in places as if it were written by Cormac McCarthy, it’s because while I was writing that book, I was reading everything by McCarthy I could get my hands on.
he is capable of random cruelties that, while unmeant, can still sting like hell.
Goddam life, I say, if you can’t laugh you might as well laugh anyway. That’s my goddam attitude, and I stick by it; this ain’t a sad world unless you’re sane. Now where was I?
