I'm really much better at asking questions than answering them, since asking questions is like a constant deflection of oneself.

One day I want to write a full-on horror book.

We've come under the influence of television, where in all honesty we can follow a show that could just get cancelled midway through the season and the entire plotline never resolves itself.

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

The first horror movie I saw, in first or second grade, was My Bloody Valentine [1981], where there's a deranged killer in a miner mask stalking a small coal town.

I like the idea of the book being wiser than the person who wrote it. None of the novels I've written are direct transcriptions of me blathering over dinner with a glass of wine in my hand. I don't hold any illusion of those conversations being of particular value. The books, though, are - I hope - bigger than my opinions, investigations that go beyond my own intellect or wit.

I have to say I do read partly for escapism. Why can't I escape and learn something?