If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder

Jesus, are all vampires over two hundred perverts?" "I am over two hundred," Jean-Claude said. "I rest my case.

If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself

Therapy can get you only so far with exorcising your childhood nightmares; after that it's willpower, and you, and people you can trust to hold your hand along the way.

Who would have ever thought I'd be afraid of a zombie, any kind of zombie? Nicely ironic that.

Confidence is a fine trait. Over-confidence isn't.

I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens