A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

The rules are very strict.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day.

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.