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.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police aren't going to come and take you away. Even William Strunk, that Mussolini of rhetoric, recognized the delicious pliability of language. "It is an old observation," he writes, "that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric." Yet he goes on to add this thought, which I urge you to consider: "Unless he is certain of doing well, [the writer] will probably do best to follow the rules."

When people begin to lose hope, there's bound to be explosions.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you because they're all make-believe. Then that way if you were actually ever driven to do any of those things, the pressure's off because you'd have already written them down. It's therapy.