“Sometimes the biggest disasters aren’t noticed at all—no one’s around to write horror stories.”

“…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me…”

"I’ve never much cared for horror stories.”

“Women, not all, but many, like seeing they aren’t alone. My story is very common. I was abused. Mistreated. Hurt by men. I came up. Women resonate with that story because it’s theirs sometimes.”

“It’s hard to build a narrative around actions not taken, disasters possibly averted, hard realities accommodated. The story of what didn’t happen isn’t an easy one to tell.”

“Life constantly presents the greatest opportunity brilliantly disguised as the biggest disaster. ”

“I noticed rich people are the biggest beggars - for attention.”

“Robert E. Howard's "Pigeons from Hell," one of the finest horror stories of our century”

“All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me, like little devils, and while one tugs at my ear, another tweaks my nose, and each says to me, 'Sir, write me, I am beautiful.”

“No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river.”

“Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.”