Only two things happen to writers when they die: Either their work survives, or it becomes forgotten.

I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.

Men! She could not understand why so many women feared them. Hadn't the gods made them with the most vurnerable part of their guts hanging right out of their bodies, like a misplaced bit of bowel? Kick them there and they curled up like snails. Caress them there and their brains melted.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

As we get older, our fears, in some way, sharpen and become more personal, because we can no longer - let's say take a book like "It" or maybe "Christine," and say these are make-believe fears.

Writing is seduction.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.