Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress that it is self-inflicted and hopefully can be channeled in a healthy way.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.

Mary wasn't brilliant.She was a good woman who let her emotions guide her politics. She just couldn't help being for anybody who was agin something.

When your own approval means more than the approval of others, that is self-love.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

I should like my house to be similar to that of the ocean wind, all quivering with gulls.

It doesn't matter if thousands of people believe in you, unless You believe in You.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.

Products should speak for themselves, and marketing should support that.

We set this house on fire forgetting that we live within.

Sometimes there's nothing but Sundays for weeks on end. Why can't they move Sunday to the middle of the week so you could put it in the OUT tray on your desk?

I have to go make books. Sorry about that.