Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them." "I don't believe in ghosts," I said, faintly. "Some people can't see the color red. That doesn't mean it isn't there," she replied.

We all need to look into the dark side of our nature - that's where the energy is, the passion. People are afraid of that because it holds pieces of us we're busy denying.

You kill people you hate or you kill in rage or you kill to get even, but you don't kill someone you're indifferent to.

I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form.

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard work, risk, and fear.