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

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.

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