Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

Oh, if the moon only had a secret, if the moon only held a truth. But the moon was just the moon.

It draws it's strength, this big secret, from the same root from which I draw my strength, both the good and the bad, because in the end, they cannot be separated.

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

There's a virtue,' Felix said, 'to listening to a reluctant storyteller. You know that he is in fact diving deep for the salvageable truth.

You look good to me, you damnable little devil, good to embrace and good to love.