We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

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