The recipe for great art has always been misery and a good bowel movement.

It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.

There is no right or wrong way to write a novel. Each journey is different for every individual work and for every writer. The first error is never to begin; the second is never to finish.

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's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

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.