I have a dread of sounding pretentious and try not to talk too much about what I do.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.

Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me.

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.

I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.

The eidolons started pounding on the door. 'Who is it?' Leo called. 'Valdez!''Valdez who?

There is no ‘my’ in ‘I’. ‘My’ is outside of the ‘I’.

The smell of pine needles, spruce and the smell of a Christmas tree - those to me, are the scents of the holidays.

To be complex does not mean to be fragmented. This is the paradox and the genius of our Canadian civilization.

You are more important to yourself than you think you are.

I think the guy who gets the least chatter, given how high his chances are of winning the nomination, is Ted Cruz.

These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors.

Your opinion of yourself is your most important viewpoint. You are infinitely greater than you think you are.

The question of woman's work in its economic aspect is really one not so much now of woman's rights as of woman's mights. Pretty much anything she wants to do, a resolute girl may now do.

Have I mentioned that I hate it when you're right?", she asked instead. Alanna shook her head. "No, I don't believe you have. As far as I could tell, you never thought I was right.