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

They walked through the rainy dark like gaunt ghosts, and Garraty didn't like to look at them. They were the walking dead.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

There is no Idea Dump, no Story Central, no Island of the Buried Bestsellers; good stories seem to come quite literally from nowhere, sailing at you right out of the empty sky.

If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think that it is serving a valid purpose. It is doing what the filmmaker intended. But, it is not something that you hand to kids.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.