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

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

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

I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.

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

I was terrified of funerals.