Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.

It's where we go, and what we do when we get there, that tells us who we really are.

The secret of being a writer: not to expect others to value what you've done as you value it. Not to expect anyone else to perceive in it the emotions you have invested in it. Once this is understood, all will be well.

Ambitious, absorbing, and poignantly moving.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.