No book, no matter how good, has a chance of reaching a large audience unless the publisher SEES the book's value.

Ray Garton never fails to go for the throat!

In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.

Horror writers are specialists in the worst case scenario

I don't worry much about whether or not one of my stories contains elements of the supernatural. If I come up with what I think is a nifty concept, I'll give it a whirl.

Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.

Love is always right.

Between the pages of a book is a lovely place to be

Wealth is the byproduct of thoughts. To be wealthy, think of wealth.

Great leaders do not shift responsibility even if it means acknowledging their own failures.

You can surmount the obstacles in your path if you are determined courageous and hardworking. ... Do not fear to pioneer to venture down new paths of endeavor.

I don't think Jesus was an exclusivist. He said, and we believe, that He is the unique representation of God in the world. But that doesn't mean this is the only way God can work.

I like triples-when I hit a ball in the gap, all I think about is a triple.

As a writer, it's fun to free yourself enough to tap into some darker elements of your personality that sometimes I don't even know exist. It doesn't feel like work.

The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.

But beauty vanishes; beauty passes; However rare rare it be; And when I crumble, who will remember This lady of the West Country?