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

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.

A migraine is the cockblock of writing.

Regarding the creative: never assume you're the master, only the student. Your audience will determine if you're masterful.

Write about the thing that scares you most or your most private confession and you'll never have a problem coming up with decent fiction.

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time.

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind.