F. Paul Wilson Quotes

#1. All men of honor are alone.

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#2. The chief thing is desire. You've really got to want to do it, you've really got to want to tell that story. And you have to be able to set goals for yourself to get it done.

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#3. Can a man who lies, cheats, steals, and sometimes does violence to other people be a man of honor?
Kolabati looked into his eyes. He can if he lies to liars, cheats cheaters, steals from thieves, and limits his violence to those who are violent.

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#4. The horror had begun.

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#5. I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.

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#6. No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

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#7. War, hate, jealousy, racism - what are they but manifestations of fear?

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#8. Your believing or not believing in karma has no effect on its existence, nor on its consequences to you. Just as a refusal to believe in the ocean would not prevent you from drowning.

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#9. Jesus paid for our sins, so let's get our money's worth.

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#10. If you come to a fight thinking it will be a fair one, you didn't come prepared.

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#11. Don't aim a gun if you have no intention of pulling the trigger. And if you do pull the trigger, shoot to kill.

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#12. True freedom requires taking responsibility for your own life. That frightens the hell out of too many people. They prefer to have Big Brother holding a safety net for them, and they'll sell their own birthright and their children's as well to keep it.

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#13. I define a thriller as a big-stakes, multiple-viewpoint novel involving suspense, action, and mystery, in which the reader doesn't know everything but usually knows more than any single character.

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#14. My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

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#15. I have never written a book that I wouldn't want to read. The trouble is, I love to read horror, sf, fantasy, mysteries, hero pulps - romantic fiction, in the original, traditional meaning of that term, as opposed to mimetic fiction. But most of all, I love thrillers.

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#16. Money ... those who don't have enough of it are only aware of what it can buy them. When you finally have enough of it you become aware- acutely aware-of all the things it can't buy ... the really important things, like youth, health, love, peace of mind.

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#17. This dazzling, unput-downable debut novel proves beyond a doubt that Dan Wells has the gift. His teenage protagonist is as chilling as he is endearing. More John Wayne Cleaver, please.

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#18. If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.

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#19. Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed.

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#20. If all the diplomats were kicked out, the UN could be turned into the finest bordello in the world and do just as much, if not more, for international harmony.

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#21. I survived a number of garage bands during my teens and early twenties, both as drummer and guitarist. It's nigh impossible for me to listen to music without parsing it.

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#22. Insides squirmed at the thought of one of those things being snaked up his penis and into his bladder.

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#23. Writing is solitary, so I love going out once in a while and meeting my readers. I'll often hang with them after a signing for some beers. They're invariably bright!

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#24. I don't know how it is with other writers, but most of the time when I finish [reading] a story or novel, I may be pleased, I may even be impressed, but somewhere in the back of my mind I'm thinking, I can do that.

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