A novel seemed the easiest way to get what I had had in my head into the inside of other people's heads. Books are good that way.

There was nowhere they could have gone and they went there anyway.

The simplest way to make sure that we raise literate children is to teach them to read, and to show them that reading is a pleasurable activity.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

I wanted to be an author as far back as I can remember, mixed with occasional bouts of wanting to be a werewolf when I grew up. But mostly, when I daydreamed, it was about being an author.

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

There was only one guy in the whole Bible Jesus ever personally promised a place with him in Paradise. Not Peter, not Paul, not any of those guys. He was a convicted thief, being executed. So don't knock the guys on death row. Maybe they know something you don't.