So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be.