Robert Cormier

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

— Robert Cormier

#beauty

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? ↗

— Robert Cormier

#physchotic-thriller #death

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

— Robert Cormier

#heroes #humanity #love #psychology #robert-cormier

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. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#life #mediocre #life

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

— Robert Cormier

#experience

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 but indifference. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#anger

At some point in life, we learn our limitations, the distances we can we can travel and the boarders we will never cross. And we go from there. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#change

I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#i #ordinary situations #people #put #real

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. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#apt #beautiful #better #brain #exact

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset. ↗

— Robert Cormier

#boy #censorship #get #seldom #upset