Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

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.

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

I was terrified of funerals.