... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.

I never have a thematic intention at the outset.

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

I can't see the future, but it's grim. The depletion of resources - we're living in this dine-and-dash economy.

There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.

If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.