I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

I want to build as many worlds as possible - each a version of ours with a crack running through it - and not be anchored to any of them.

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is often the keyhole through which you peer.

You can't teach talent, but you can teach people how to read strenuously and mimic the moves of rock-star writers so that they eventually accumulate a toolbox of skills.

I wanted it to be as multi-windowed as possible, so that the reader felt like they were seeing all the different ways in to a big haunted house.

I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools.

People talk about me as masculine. Because of the way I walk and talk and crank out pull-ups and smell like bacon.

My voice dropped when I was 14. And when I was 14, I might have weighed 75 pounds. So you can imagine how strange that must have been: like James Earl Jones speaking through a sock puppet.

Lycans are human.

Fight back. Bite back.

They’re always wrong in the movies.

We are creating a world where no parent will ever again have to choose between skipping meals and sending their kids to school

I liked to put young and old in the same room, because they would certainly have different takes on the same problem.

Little changes are the enemies of great changes.

Have you ever lived in the suburbs? It's sterile. It's nothing. It's wasting your life.

The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

Books and beer are the best and worst defense.

Wives invariably flourish when deserted; ... it is the deserting male, the reckless idealist rushing about the world seeking a non-existent felicity, who often ends in disaster.