There's no denying that the way horror has been packaged in the past has done it no favours. Lurid black covers adorned with skulls, corpses crawling with insects and scantily clad maidens being chewed into by vampires -- all good clean fun, but it doesn't do much to give the genre an air of respectability or seriousness to the casual browser.

Do you have to feel something for it to be real or mean anything? Can you touch your dreams, taste your imagination.

Your life is a blank, and you're barely a shade across it.

Voyaging great distances -- through forests, from island to island, across plains and into the mountains -- is all about finding ourselves.

The Force is neither light nor dark, master nor slave, but a balance between extremes.

Any writer takes inspiration from what they read and watch, and over their career works on forming their own voice. I think it was probably Stephen King who made me want to become a writer.

Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.