I think what you do is, you keep your sensors open. And it's - the more that you do the job, the more you come to understand in a kind of intuitive way that you're always - you know, your radar is on. And the thing is going around and around and around. And it's not picking up any blips.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me. I think we tend to write out our phobias.

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.

The monster nevers dies.

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

Description is what makes the reader a sensory participant in the story.