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.

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

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.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories.

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

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