I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

The rules are very strict.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

To be kind to everyone is a divine beauty.

I didn’t intend it to come out sarcastically, but I guess that’s just where my tone of voice automatically goes these days.

To tell a lie is to risk being caught out and there’s excitement in avoiding traps: it was an aspect of my childhood I was perhaps averse to relinquishing.

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.

The thought of going abroad makes my heart leap.

It's when the discomfort strikes that they realize a strong mind is the most powerful weapon of all.

Truth, like the sun, submits to be obscured; but, like the sun, only for a time.

Labor Day is a holiday honoring those who work for a living. Laborious Day is a lesser known holiday honoring those who cannot stop talking about their work.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

You cannot please everyone. You cannot soothe everyone.