People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.

She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack.

Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.