Wonderful ... I was up all night reading it, laughing and crying out in horror.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

What we fear we often rage against.

The truth will set you free, they say, but believe me, nothing will set you free.

What's in a view? The world, by any other, would remain just as it is, just as wonderful :-)

Take a step back and view the world through your eyes, not someone else’s. Listen to your heart and decide what you really want.

It ain't over 'til it's over.

Be thine own palace or the world's thy jail.

I had quite a religious upbringing. I gave my life over to Christ at 11. I took it back when I was about 14.

And my parents' separation was tricky. But my mum had always been really honest with me, and treated me like an adult even when I was really young, so I knew they hadn't been getting on.

It's amazing what you can get if you quietly, clearly and authoritatively demand it.

Because I am known in the horror genre now, I try and do at least one horror movie a year for my fans, my fans have been so good to me.

See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!