"It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.' Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed."

-- Jonathan Safran Foer

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“On my tombstone they will carve, "IT NEVER GOT FAST ENOUGH FOR ME.”
“There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.”
“I wish to say to you that the life of an enlightened people and a vibrant nation cannot be measured by the life of an individual. A successful person is one who manages to lay down a new stone, a brick that would help firm up his nation's existence.”
“I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.”

Source : "James Herbert on his daily routine, writing The Rats and how he hates violence". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 12, 2012.
“Well, I think I'm not a non-believer, and I'm not a believer. But, on the other hand, I couldn't give you a good enough reason why EVP doesn't exist. I don't know enough about it, so how could I say it's not true. Plus, a person's reality is a person's reality so that's your belief system. It's all perception anyway, isn't it.”
“I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual.”
“Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.”
“The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying. Creating art (music, books, films, etc.) can be beautiful and liberating, but trying to sell art, well, that is the movie business. There are few winners, and lots and lots of losers.”

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