We are going to fight. We are going to be hurt. And in the end, we will stand.

I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed."

It starts with this: put your desk in the corner, and every time you sit down there to write, remind yourself why it isn't in the middle of the room. Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

The past is obdurate.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.