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

My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

Whenever I publish a book, I feel like a trapper caught by the Iroquois. They're all lined up with Tomahawks, and the idea is to run through with your head down, and everybody gets to take a swing. They hit you in the head, the back, the ass, and the balls.

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.