All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

If you have something specific and visible to fear, rather than something that could be anything, it is easier.

You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it.

It does not matter where you come from, if you walk toward the truth you will reach it, whatever path you take.

Everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world, I mean everybody — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.

She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.