Any conversation including the mention of Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, or Emily Dickinson is one worth getting into or at least eavesdropping.

When you're writing what you love, it's the most fun you can have with your clothing still on, unless of course, you write naked.

Always mystify, torture, mislead, and surprise the audience as much as possible.

Love it when a compelling new character kicks open your mental door, tracks mud across your brain, and props their feet up on your cerebrum.

If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing more than a tawdry parlor trick. All flash and no magic, and worst of all, no heart.

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.

Authors must spend months, years making fantasy believable in a single work while reality runs rampant and complete chaos elsewhere.