If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.

The real importance of reading is that it creates an ease & intimacy with the process of writing... It also offers you a constantly growing knowledge of what has been done and what hasn't, what is trite and what is fresh, what works and what lies there dying (or dead) on the page. The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor.

Nora Roberts is cool.

When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying the trees. When you’re done, you have to step back and look at the forest.

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.