It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.
Robert CormierThe beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.
Robert CormierTags: writing
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 CormierTags: action physchotic-thriller
That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.
Robert CormierCities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.
Robert CormierA 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.
Robert CormierWhat could he say? After the phone calls and the beating. After the desecration of his locker. The silent treatment. Pushed downstairs. What they did to Goober, to Brother Eugene. What guys like Archie and Janza did to the school. What they would do to the world when they left Trinity.
Robert CormierA 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.
Robert CormierEverybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
Robert CormierTags: love humanity evil psychology sin heroes robert-cormier
He was intrigued by the power of words, not the literary words that filled the books in the library but the sharp, staccato words that went into the writing of news stories. Words that went for the jugular. Active verbs that danced and raced on the page.
Robert CormierTags: words power-of-words literary news
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