Wash the bones, bring the body, leave the heart behind.

I am very interested in place, and the influences of place on characters.

We're all entitled to our superstitions.

No matter how grave the secret, how imperative absolute silence, someone would always feel the urge to confess, and an unleashed secret is a terrible force.

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

A lot of writers that I know have told me that the first book you write, you write about your childhood, whether you want to or not. It calls you back.

The best fiction stays with you and changes you.