I tend to go back and forth between old favourites and "new" stuff, some of which could easily be by authors I've hitherto heard about but haven't had the chance to catch up with.

I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.

I wish you a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year.

A city is not gauged by its length and width, but by the broadness of its vision and the height of its dreams.

It's so much nicer to be a secret and delightful sin to anybody than to be a feather in his cap.

I hated myself, but I also loved myself in a hateful way.

Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time.

I love Hank Williams. Who doesn't love Hank Williams? So my choices are not that surprising.

Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business.

The character of the subject must influence the choice of the method of its representation.