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Speech on childhood reading, writing, and the fear behind censorship PART II
This speech addresses Cormier's childhood and adolescent reading and writing. It includes the Introduction to his 20th Anniversary edition of I Am the Cheese and letters with objectors.
Speech on childhood reading, writing, and the fear behind censorship PART I
This speech addresses Cormier's childhood and adolescent reading and writing. It includes the introduction to his 20th Anniversary edition of I Am the Cheese and letters from objectors.
Signed points on censorship
Robert Cormier provides four bulleted points on his thoughts on censorship. These are frequently included in his letters to fans and objectors who write to him on censorship. He later added a fifth point addressing his distaste for defending his…
Rough typescript on father's death
Cormier describes being driven to write by strong feelings.
Robert Cormier's drafts of his chapter on censorship
Assorted draft pages of Cormier's chapter on censorship later included in his essay "A Book Is Not a House: The Human Side of Censorship."
Robert Cormier's conference talk on fear - final draft
Cormier's talk on fear delivered at New York University discusses the nature of fear and how fear comes from within and not from movies and books. He talks about how fear is in the commonplace facts and experiences of life and not in the fantastic.…
Robert Cormier's conference talk on fear - draft
Cormier describes how the source of fear is not in monsters on the screen or in books but those in our minds. He also describes a mother reading his novels along with her eighth-grade son.
Robert Cormier's advice to writers
Robert Cormier shares his advice to writers to keep writing through their distractions and despite multiple commitments in their lives.
Letter from Robert Cormier to Sheila 28 May 1983
Cormier speaks to his motives for writing and its basis in emotion.
Letter from Robert Cormier to Michael Middleton 25 May 1998
Cormier defends downbeat endings as an important reality but states that he is not a pessimist.
Letter from Robert Cormier to Maxine Goodsell 7 February 1998
Cormier writes about the limiting influence literature would have on the behavior of its readers.