I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through the newsroom in my time there that were dismissed as kind of amusing curiosities. Somehow from that I got to this idea of an eccentric alcoholic who built a lighthouse in the woods.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.