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.

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.

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

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

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.

The single right decision to take is to forget the past so that it does not mislead you at a later stage

He who is absolutely right is absolutely wrong

Explanations are ghosts of guilt, shadows of sympathy, and I have no use for them.

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There are powers inside of you which, if you could discover and use, would make of you everything you ever dreamed or imagined you could become.

I make it my rule, to lay hold of light and embrace it, wherever I see it, though held forth by a child or an enemy.

I think violence begets violence. I don't think a way to solve any sort of conflict is with violence because nothing ever ends up solved, that way.

Now, it is much more difficult for young people coming to New York. But also when you're young, you have more time to interact with one another, to discover yourself with people of your generation.

I don't feel depressed. I feel elated.

As long as we're fit, we just have so much to give on the court.