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

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

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

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

Poetry is an orphan of silence.

Your Writing Teacher ‏@WritingChiefIf u don't get ur protagonist dirty, ur readers will get bored. Readers are wild, cliff-jumping, mud-wrestling savages. Become their leader. (anonymous on Twitter)

This is my idea of heaven, coming home and watching the news.

Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to ever sarcastically say hello. Hellooo, I invented the telephone!

I became fascinated by the fact that people write to give away rather than write to be read. It's the difference between playwrights and novelists.

Man arose to high moral vision two thousand years before the Hebrew nation was born.

I'll be famous one day, but for now I'm stuck in middle school with a bunch of morons." - Greg Heffley.

A leader who produces other leaders multiples their influences.

Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived.

Nothing has done more to render modern economic theory a sterile and irrelevant exercise in autoeroticism than its practitioners’ obsession with mathematical, general-equilibrium models.