You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Love is what moves the world, I've always thought...it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down...bring them low...and make them crawl.

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.

Successful rebellions always begin in secret.

All Thing Serve the Beam

There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of stuff that is written in this field, though, that is not very good. You just have to look for the good stuff.

Listening to it was like having a mud-slimed piece of silk drawn lightly back and forth across her face.