I'm not afraid of werewolves or vampires or haunted hotels, I'm afraid of what real human beings to do other real human beings.

If you can find collaborators whose strengths compliment your own, the result can be more than the sum of its authors.

When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power.

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.

That's why editors and publishers will never be obsolete: a reader wants someone with taste and authority to point them in the direction of the good stuff, and to keep the awful stuff away from their door.

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.

Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.