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
As to that sensitive child out there, I know they exist, but maybe a good dose of the truth would be a warning for what's waiting.
All the stories I'll ever need are right here on Main Street.
I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.
It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.
Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.
And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.
He was swept with a sadness, a sadness deep and penetrating, leaving him desolate like someone washed up on a beach, a lone survivor in a world full of strangers.
I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.
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.
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.