The past is obdurate.

Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.

I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment.

A coward judges all he sees by what he is.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

Without story books is like a person with no soul.