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.

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

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

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

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