It's hard for me to believe that people who read very little (or not at all in some cases) should presume to write and expect people to like what they have written.

If you're going into a very dark place, then you should take a bright light, and shine it on everything. If you don't want to see, why in God's name would you dare the dark at all?

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out.

I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.