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.

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

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

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

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 can turn all your imaginations and dreams into tangible products if only you will invest your time into working hard to achieve that.

By embracing our brokenness, we don’t come to Christ's feet occasionally, but we stay at His feet continuously.

Carelessness does more harm than a want of knowledge.

Outside among your fellows among strangers you must preserve appearances 100 things you cannot do but inside the terrible freedom!

Any man worth his salt loves a feminist. Only men who are afraid of the feminine in themselves are afraid of women.

It's pathetic how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.

The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it.

In our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented.

Our religion seems foolish to you, but so does yours to me. The Baptists and Methodists and Presbyterians and the Catholics all have a different God. Why cannot we have one of our own?

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.