I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.

I hated school. I don't trust anybody who looks back on the years from 14 to 18 with any enjoyment. If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Good days and long nights to ya, sai.

My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

I like to get ten pages a day, which amounts to 2,000 words. That’s 180,000 words over a three-month span, a goodish length for a book — something in which the reader can get happily lost, if the tale is done well and stays fresh.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.