I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

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 fall of communism had more to do with prayer meetings in Poland than bombs dropped on Cambodia. War is, among other things, impatience.

Holding her gaze, he sheathed his short sword and pulled the gauntlet off his left hand with his teeth. He held out his bare hand t

Well... "why" is a hard question to answer in any language.

Those people who are uncomfortable in themselves are disagreeable to others.

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his own defined identity.

You have to deeply understand the essence of a product in order to be able to get rid of the parts that are not essential.

Absurdity is the one thing love can't stand; it can overlook anything else, -- coldness, or weakness, or viciousness, -- but just be ridiculous and that's the end of it!

The higher the rope, the more thrilling it is to climb.

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.