What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.

You never know what's going to happen in your life, and you never know what's going to happen in someone else's life either.

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

At the end of the day, despite all the other great things that literature does in society and in a person's life, I think that we read to escape. And I think that place, more than anything, provides that escape quickly, if an author is engaged with the place.

We're all entitled to our superstitions.

I like dark subject matter. I'm not sure what that means about me!

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.