Robert Cormier Quotes

• I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

  Robert Cormier

  Bully, Intimidation, Felt

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• It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

  Robert Cormier

  Heart, Cracks, Noise

  Robert Cormier (1998). “Heroes: A Novel”, Delacorte Press Books for Young Readers

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Writing, Brain

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• I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

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  Book, Pages, Lost

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• Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

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  Evil, Sin, Terrible

  Robert Cormier (2013). “Heroes”, p.115, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Hay momentos que paran el corazón, que detienen la respiración, que detienen el latido de la sangre en tus venas, y quedas suspendido en el tiempo, detenido entre la vida y la muerte, y esperas a que algo te devuelva de nuevo.

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  Heart, Blood, Life And Death

  Robert Cormier (2013). “Fade”, p.10, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• A 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.

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  Animal, Knowing, World

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.254, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

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  Odds, Mad, Risk

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• As much as there is joy in writing, there's always the little bit of terror to keep you on edge, on your toes. It is a strange way to occupy yourself - to enjoy your life on a daily basis. There is no guarantee that something great is going to come next.

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  Writing, Guarantees That, Occupy Yourself

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

  Robert Cormier

  Writing, Intelligent, Thinking

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

  Robert Cormier

  Hero, Rotten

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.115, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

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  Desea

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• 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

  Libro, Lectura, Años

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• You bring up your children to be self-reliant and independent and they double-cross you and become self-reliant and independent.

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  Children, Independent, Self

  Robert Cormier (2013). “EIGHT PLUS ONE: STORIES”, p.102, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

  Robert Cormier

  Boys, Years, Upset

  Interview with Lyn Gardner, www.theguardian.com. November 05, 2000.

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• 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?

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  Hate, Flower, Opposites

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• Un hombre que conozco que escribe y aspira a ser novelista lee muy poco, y no tiene tanto éxito. Pero creo que es porque es como el niño que quiere ser jugador de béisbol y nunca va al estadio ni intenta batear una pelota. Así que diría que leer es lo más importante que hago, aparte de escribir. Siempre me pregunto al leer: "¿Cómo lo ha hecho el escritor? ¿Por qué de repente tengo lágrimas en los ojos? ¿Por qué estoy llorando?

  Robert Cormier

  Reading, Writing, Kids

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• He hated to think of his own life stretching ahead of him that way, a long succession of days and nights that were fine - not good, not bad, not great, not lousy, not exciting, not anything.

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  Night, Thinking, Long

  Robert Cormier (2013). “The Chocolate War”, p.63, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book." That's the kind of response you want, and I can't sacrifice it for the sake of somebody worried about censorship. You have to find a way to be truthful and honest.

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  Book, Kids, Sacrifice

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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.

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  Thinking, Earthquakes, People

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Siempre me digo a mí mismo mientras escribo que en realidad no estoy escribiendo una novela; sólo voy a tontear con un personaje o una idea.

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  Writing, Character, Ideas

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• La reescritura siempre es crucial para lo que hago; siempre que hago una escena, me digo que no es la definitiva y que puedo volver a hacerla, mejor. El ritmo es probablemente fruto de la experiencia. Siempre me ha gustado la revelación gradual. Sigo pensando en mi teoría de la goma elástica. Tienes una goma elástica de la que vas tirando y tirando y tirando, y justo en el momento en que se rompe la sueltas y empiezas otro capítulo y vuelves a tirar.

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  Thinking, Finals, Band

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• You could reason with someone who was halfway educated and appeal to his intelligence, but I felt helpless in the face of utter stupidity.

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  Stupidity, Faces, Reason

  Robert Cormier (2013). “Fade”, p.35, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Writing, even though it's hard work, is really a joy when you get these characters to come alive. It's hard to trace where they come from. I can't say that I am sitting here one night at nine o'clock and that a character occurs to me. The magic for me happens at the typewriter.

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  Hard Work, Writing, Character

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'm weary of the battle. But a tired fighter can still be a fighter.

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  Tired, Battle, Fighter

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