A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.

Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.

We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.

The best horror novels open up, "It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.

The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened.

Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.

We have glamorized vice and minimized virtue. We have played down gentleness, manners, and morals—while we have played up rudeness, savagery, and vice . . . and the philosophy of “might is right.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Doing goodness, but doing goodness only is the best and the most superior religion of all the times!

Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear.

I like to do things in which I'm playing someone else entirely.

Old things are better than new things, because they've got stories in them, Ethan.

If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.

No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.

Never trust a guy who plucks his eyebrows.

My father used to tell me about how musicians don't have respect from people and he was afraid about my future.