I started off like everyone else does, slogging but having a compulsion to put words on paper. I didn't write or read horror or fantasy, other than children's fantasy, until I was in my teens
There's no one so self-righteous as someone policing someone else's morality.
Death is the last intimate thing we ever do.
Sex is like crying, it does look pretty if you really do it
If I'd been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real.
Guarantees are for major appliances, not for murder.
Readers respond to every genre intensely, if it's a genre that appeals to them. Again, who can say why anyone enjoys horror and dark fantasy? If I can't answer the question for myself, I wouldn't dream of trying to answer it for others
It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.
I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies
You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does
Power makes you a monarch, and all the fancy robes in the world won't do the job without it.
True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.
Why was so much evil pleasant, pretty on the outside, like poisoned candy?
Never look back; something is always gaining on you.
The federal government has never been known for its sense of humor.
Every religion has demons.... Nothing like a real, live demon to give you some of that old-time religion.
Ideals are great in theory ... but they don't work too well in real life.
It was two weeks before Christmas. A slow time of year for raising the dead.
Life is often like that, the best balancing on a knife edge with the worst.
Love is never free ... It is the most expensive emotion we have.
Vampires can live a very long time, theoretically forever, which means their idea of getting down to business can be damn leisurely.
Personally I didn't believe God had a private torture chamber. Hell was being cut off from God, cut off from his power, his energy, Him.
I hate to shop. I consider it one of life's necessary evils, like brussels sprouts and high-heeled shoes.
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