What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

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.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

And if you are honest about the words coming out of your characters' mouths, you'll find that you've let yourself in for a fair amount of criticism.