In the country of the story the writer is king.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

Hill House, she thought, You're as hard to get into as heaven.

It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities.

No, the menace of the supernatural is that it attacks where modern minds are weakest, where we have abandoned our protective armor of superstition and have no substitute defense.

I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.