What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

You have only so many chances to tell stories. I didn't want to be forever wedded to one form of storytelling when there are so many out there.

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress that it is self-inflicted and hopefully can be channeled in a healthy way.

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.

I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is either lying or being foolish.

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.

He stood at the edge of town feeling very small, powerless. Night in the mountains could do that to you, reminding you of your place in the world and laughing at any sense of self-importance.

You had better live your best and act your best and think your best today for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

What the result means is that the Franco-German axis is in serious trouble. It's the end of a phase which began in 2002.

A lot of kids, when they go to church, they don't really pay much attention to what they're saying or whatever.

We know from past history that when young people vote for one party a couple of times, they tend to vote for that party during their adult lifetimes in disproportionate numbers.

I am not afraid to keep on living. I am not afraid to walk this world alone. Honey if you stay you'll be forgiven, nothing you can say will set me going home.

When I was on the big labels, I never calculated what would make me sell more records. I just did what I did -no different than when I wrote songs for myself in high-school.

All my tales are true, drawn from life, and a life story is not a tidy thing.

Anyone who thinks humans are not capable of so fouling their own nest that the land and the waters can no longer be productive just hasn't been paying attention.

Stop listening for a voice and start looking for a verse. He's already spoken.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.