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….

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

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

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

I was a coward. I'm still such a coward..

They always talk about teenagers thinking their lives will never end. I expected my life to end at any minute, every day..

I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some mar….

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about..

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

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

The rules are very strict..

I was terrified of funerals..

here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle..

I don't feel like writing any more ghost stories..

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body..

There are a lot of reasons to doubt things..

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,"….

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS.