People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand.

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

I think that's what people most always do with the stuff they can't make out - just forget it.

As a teenager, I read a lot of H.P. Lovecraft, so I wrote like H.P. Lovecraft. And in my 20s, I read a lot of Ross Macdonald and Raymond Chandler, so I wrote like those guys. But, little by little, you develop your own style.