Robert Cormier Quotes

"You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset."
- Robert Cormier
(Related: Censorship)

"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
(Related: Time, First, Right, Word, Writing)

"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
- Robert Cormier
(Related: Books, Writer)

"I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations."
- Robert Cormier
(Related: People)

"I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence."
- Robert Cormier
(Related: Life, Adolescence, Pretty, Sense)

"I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt."
- Robert Cormier

"I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper."
- Robert Cormier
(Related: Time, Trying)

"Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationship. I always felt 'safe' there."
- Robert Cormier
(Related: Family, Home, Life, Mother, Father)

"I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are."
- Robert Cormier
(Related: Mind, Old)

"There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it is a 15-year-old who is reading your book or someone who is 55."
- Robert Cormier
(Related: Open, Reading)

"All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street."
- Robert Cormier
(Related: Right)