If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

The bad ideas kind of just drop out of the mix. You forget about them. The good ones stick around.

Don't let the sun go down without saying thank you to someone, and without admitting to yourself that absolutely no one gets this far alone.

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

I do have one slightly crooked wheel upstairs, but everything else is ticking along just four-o, thank you very much.

There were no horror movies or horror books to speak of in the '40s. I picked the '50s because that pretty well spans my life as an appreciator - as somebody who's been involved with this mass cult of horror, from radio and movies and Saturday matinees and books. In the '40s there really wasn't that much. People don't want to read about horrible things in horrible times. So, in the '40s, there was Val Lutin with The Cat People and The Curse of the Cat People and there wasn't much else.