“I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience because terror reduces all of us to our most authentic forms.”

“They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.”

“Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots.”

“. I watched her sip at the drink some more. She was strong, healthy, but also petite enough that I was certain I could overpower her. Id made the right decision not to tranquilize her, I thought. S...”

“Deadlines help me, but my muse hates them. My muse functions in fits and starts, and tends to take very long vacations. Deadlines are like a hot poker to his ass. They force us both to sit down and...”

“Sandys was one of those places that made poor, white trash feel like high-class consumers. This was the kind of place youd take your mistress to, but never your wife. Wives expected better. Mistres...”

“I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience because terror reduces all of us to our most authentic forms.”

“They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.”

“Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots.”

“Who is better off? The one who writes to revel in the voluptuousness of the life that surrounds them? Or the one who writes to escape the tediousness of that which awaits them outside? Whose flame ...”

“Lately it's started to seem to me that here in America our fetishization of self-reliance has taken a wrong turn and has helped enable us to jettison compassion as a national value while still main...”

“The most we can hope for when we write anything is dazzling imperfection. The least we can hope for is accolades from one or two people who don't know us. Spending all afternoon on "the right word"...”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”