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.

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

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

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

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.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.