Robert Cormier Quotes

The beautiful part of writing is that you don't have to get it right the first time, unlike, say, a brain surgeon.

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.

The cheese stands aloneThe cheese stands aloneHeigh-ho the merry-oThe cheese stands alone

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.