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

- Mary Downing Hahn

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

- Mary Downing Hahn

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,"…

- Mary Downing Hahn

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

- Mary Downing Hahn

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

- Mary Downing Hahn

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.

- Mary Downing Hahn

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

- Mary Downing Hahn

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

- Mary Downing Hahn

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

- Mary Downing Hahn