My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
It’s just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind – and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
I think film had a terrible effect on horror fiction particularly in the 80s, with certain writers turning out stuff as slick and cliched as Hollywood movies.
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.
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