You have to read history. You have to have a sense of history.

Stephen King has the exact ability that Charles Dickens had. To get to his readers in spite of or despite anything the reviews say.

The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.

If there is some blood on the pages then you have some readership.

The importance to the world of what we scribblers write is in doubt, I would think.

What I try to do is read stuff that won't deal with the dangerous dark things I hope I am writing about.

I don't think the world is particularly responsive to - our world, the culture we are in, to art right now.