If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.

I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”“It’s the only way we know how to love.

Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.

Discipline your mind to think positively

May the pathways that are Soulfully gifted to you, never be ignored — but, always embraced.

Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God

Ours began in a most unexciting way, as friends. Now, our love may be quiet and boring but it is sure. With the right amount of trust and love, and even an allowance for mistake.

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.

Success come to those who become success conscious.

You can always figure out how to deliver things in somewhat controlled situations, but when you start to get into the reality of the market you start to figure out what isn't going to work.

When we are attentive to our actions we are not prisoners to our habits.

Over-confidence is as evil as undue anxiety.