The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.

It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.

I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.