We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.

I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic.