Zombies are the new vampire.
As a species we’re fundamentally insane.
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of all bad writing.
There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean – hell, I know that.
A writer’s notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.
Waiting rooms were made for books-of course! But so are theater lobbies before the show, long and boring checkout lines, and everyone’s favorite, the john.
Busy as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest.
Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.
Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it’s like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There’s plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.
The world had moved on and all that was over, done before fairly begun.
Once I fell in love with books, I fell in love completely.
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.
I don’t take notes; I don’t outline, I don’t do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I’m a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can’t sell it as caviar.
If you can read in the 21st century you own the world.
If I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross out. I’m not proud.
As a rule, I don’t worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.
The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.
He supposed that even in Hell, people got an occasional sip of water, if only so they could appreciate the full horror of unrequited thirst when it set in again.
Writing is seduction.