In violence there is often the quality of yearning - the yearning for completion. For closure. For that which is absent and would if present bring to….

Each new book is a tremendous challenge..

Occasionally.. .what you have to do is go back to the beginning and see everything in a new way..

I always think about the books I'm doing in pretty much the same way. I'm simply trying to write that particular novel as well as that particular nov….

If I planned everything out in advance, I'd expire of boredom..

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight..

Nobody can protect anybody else from vileness. Or from pain. All you can do is not let it break you in half and keep on going until you get to the ot….

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary..

I liked the place I came from. But a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there..

I wish I'd known at the beginning that all I really had to do is trust myself. Everything would work out as if by magic once I actually leaned back i….

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth..

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem?.

To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting….

Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinemen….

Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking..

The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still people..

What was the worst thing you've ever done? I won't tell you that, but I'll tell you the worst thing that ever happened to me...the most dreadful thin….

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark..

I was once told by a very well-respected editor, "Category horror is about good vs. evil, that's all it is." And I thought, "That's why it's no good.….

A lyrical, brave and complex novel that takes enormous risks and pulls them all off..

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through..