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"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."
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"It just happens to be the way that I'm made. I have to write things down to feel I fully comprehend them."
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"Writing is my pleasure and the play,where I find myself again and again."
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"Writing is the most fun you can have by yourself."
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"There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I've already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the hand, leading me along unfathomed paths. Either way, the end result is this author's fairytale."
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"My writings are my letters to the universe, who loved me like a mother."
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"Love is easy, and I love writing. You can't resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you're in love."
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"Writing is a disease of the mind, which is expressed through a pen."
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"A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents."
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"What makes a writer a prophet is his ability to speak truth..."
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"The eloquence of the pen is just as sharp as the point of a sword."
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"Trying to break into the horror market seemed natural."
Horror
"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
Books
"For the novels I wrote before selling anything, I didn't outline much. I had a vague idea of the story."
Creativity
"The way I outline has changed quite a bit from when I first started writing."
Writing
"I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself."
Time
"I've been reading horror since I was five years old."
Horror
"On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance."
Dance
"Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years."
Writing
"For each book, the time is also broken up."
Time
"When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics."
Reading
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