A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness.
Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it’s a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
Don’t tell me what’s necessary, you presumptupus pup. What’s necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.
If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you’re not proud of, use a pen-name for that.
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn’t, maybe you need a different publisher.
I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life’s too short for that. I don’t really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he’s the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
The rain wasn’t the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.
If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I’ve read it.
I’ve got a long list of books I wish I’d never written-and I’ve kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.
Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.
Although I’ve said a million times that I’m not a horror writer, I do like horror.
I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
I never discuss a novel while I’m writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.