Quotes by Robert Cormier

Robert Cormier

…pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

Doe

Intensity

Pain

A man I know who writes and aspires to be a novelist does very little reading, and he’s not that successful. But I think it’s because he’s like the kid who wants to be a ballplayer and never goes to the ballpark or tries to hit a ball. So I’d say reading is the most important thing that I do, besides the actual writing. I’m always asking as I read, “How did the writer do this? Why do I suddenly have tears in my eyes? Why am I crying?”

Kids

Reading

Writing

A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.

Animal

Knowing

World

A novel must work as a story because no one’s going to get to the other themes if you don’t entertain the reader. But I like to have another layer of meaning, although you can read the book on one level and not bother with that other layer.

Book

Levels

Stories

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. And nothing you could do about it.

Mother

Sadness

Way

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

Mad

Odds

Risk

Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.

Affection

Mean

People

And he did see–that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn’t trust anybody, not even yourself.

Hero

Rotten

Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he’d always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

Brother

Heart

Running

As much as there is joy in writing, there’s always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself – to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next.

Guarantees That

Occupy Yourself

Writing

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Affection

Animal

Band

Battle

Beach

Beautiful

Believe

Bigs

Blood

Body

Book

Boys

Brain

Brother

Bully

Character

Children

Cities

Cracks

Creativity

Doe

Dream

Earthquakes

Evil

Faces

Family

Father

Felt

Fiction

Fighter

Finals

Fire

Flower

Giving

Guarantees That

Guy

Hard Work

Hate

Heart

Hero

House

Hurt

I Can

Ideas

Independent

Inspirational

Intelligent

Intensity

Intimidation

Invisible

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Quotes by Robert Cormier

Robert Cormier

…pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

A new sickness invaded Jerry, the sickness of knowing what he had become, another animal, another beast, another violent person in a violent world, inflicting damage, not disturbing the universe but damaging it.

A novel must work as a story because no one’s going to get to the other themes if you don’t entertain the reader. But I like to have another layer of meaning, although you can read the book on one level and not bother with that other layer.

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. And nothing you could do about it.

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.

And he did see–that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn’t trust anybody, not even yourself.

Archie became absolutely still, afraid that the rapid beating of his heart might betray his sudden knowledge, the proof of what he’d always suspected, not only of Brother Leon but most grownups, most adults: they were vulnerable, running scared, open to invasion.

As much as there is joy in writing, there’s always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself – to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next.

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