Death is when the monsters get you.

For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.

I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

Working with him was sort of like trying to defuse a bomb with somebody standing behind you and every now and then clashing a pair of cymbals together. In a word, upsetting.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open.