You might question a winkle - a feeling that came to you right out of the blue - but you didn’t question knowing.

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.

I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs through the audience. If it's a good movie, the fear jumps from one person to the next. You can find yourself screaming just because everybody around you is screaming. There's a real atmosphere of terror. It's also visual, which means that you can't look away from this thing - it's happening. You're in the dark. It's like a nightmare. It's like a dream. It's very, very visual. It works on all those levels.