In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

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

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.

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.

I work until beer o'clock.

Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.