Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

Laughter... is like a hurricane: once it reaches a certain point, it becomes self-feeding, self-supporting. You laugh not because the jokes are funny but because your own condition is funny.

I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively.