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.

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

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

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.

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

Nothing says work efficiency like panic mode.