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

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 it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

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

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," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

The rules are very strict.

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 nobody even locked their doors.

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

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

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

Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

[Audubon's works are] the most splendid monuments which art has erected in honor of ornithology.

I changed. I have been turning into a different person since that half-minute.

I come from Main Street, from a small town that's really depressed.

Grace is the mother and nurse of holiness, and not the apologist of sin.

There is a lovely root to the word humiliation - from the latin word humus, meaning soil or ground. When we are humiliated, we are in effect returning to the ground of our being.

These people [supporters] are fervent. They are really want to see positive things happen for our country.

Occupants of public offices love power and are prone to abuse it.

Are you flirting with me?