When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vampire.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.

It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.