you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Everybody wants to psychoanalyze horror. They don't want to psychoanalyze a book like Gay Talese's "Sex with Your Neighbor" [sic] or something like that. It's pretty much accepted that Americans should be interested in who they're diddling and how they're doing it.

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

Superhero movies and comic books teach a lesson that runs directly counter to the culture-of-violence idea: guns are for bad guys too cowardly to fight like men.

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.