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

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

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.

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

Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.

I was a coward. I'm still such a coward.

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