84 Quotes by Robert Cormier

They murdered him.

Ray Bannister started to build the guillotine the day Jerry Renault returned to Monument.

She discovered how distant pity was from hate, how very far it was from love.

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

All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.

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

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

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.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.