Robert Cormier
Robert Cormier
Robert Edmund Cormierwas an American author, columnist and reporter, known for his deeply pessimistic, downbeat literature. His most popular works include I Am the Cheese, After the First Death, We All Fall Down and The Chocolate War, all of which have won awards. The Chocolate War was challenged in multiple libraries. His books often are concerned with themes such as abuse, mental illness, violence, revenge, betrayal and conspiracy. In most of his novels, the protagonists do not win...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth17 July 1925
CountryUnited States of America
It doesn't matter how big the body, it's what you do with it.
It would be nice to avoid the world, to leave it and all its threats and unhappiness. Not to die or anything like that, but to find a place of solitude and solace.
Do I dare disturb the universe? Yes, I do, I do. I think. Jerry suddenly understood the poster--the solitary man on the beach standing upright and alone and unafraid, poised at the moment of making himself heard and known in the world, the universe.
Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?
It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.
You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.
I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.
...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.
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.
I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.
That's what Archie did - built a house nobody could anticipate a need for, except himself, a house that was invisible to everyone else.
Cities fell. Earth opened. Planets tilted. Stars plummeted. And the awful silence.
A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.