They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too. Robert Cormier More Quotes by Robert Cormier More Quotes From Robert Cormier We often think that tragedies happen because of great earthquakes in people's lives. I think they sometimes occur because of small things that become obsessive to a particular person. Robert Cormier earthquakes people thinking I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to compensate. Robert Cormier weakness thinking I write very tightly, and my big fear is boring people. I want them to read quickly, stopped in their tracks. I resist indulging myself. Robert Cormier track writing people You hope that people read your book and say "Yes, this is the way it is or could be." But then you have no way of knowing until the reader reads the book. Actually, the critical response doesn't worry me. I've had very few reviews that have upset me. Robert Cormier knowing worry book When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my mind. Then I try to get the scene down on paper as closely as I can. That's the one thing that readers don't see - what you have in your mind. The reader can only see what you get on the page. Robert Cormier mind writing thinking The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them now, you see the development of character and the twists of plot; but essentially they told stories. My mother didn't go to the movies because of a religious promise she made early in her life, and I used to go to movies and come home and tell her the plots of those old Warner Brothers/James Cagney movies, the old romantic love stories. Through these movies that had real characters, I absorbed drama, sense of pacing, and plot. Robert Cormier brother religious mother All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street. Robert Cormier here street right need
