The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series.

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

When I was young, you know, the first foreign editions that would come in of anything of mine, I'd sit there and look at them as these strange and wonderful artifacts.

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.

There was a hand in the darkness, and it held a knife.

And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.