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I take in a lot of stuff from real life, movies, television, news and it all gets mixed in my head and somehow turns into a story idea.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm usually just trying to write about things that are interesting to me.

I try to deal with my serious reading before work.

The things I'm guided to do are really strange to me.

While I would agree that I write about serious subjects, and that they're not necessarily the most pleasant subjects or even the most pleasant people, as a writer I just think about the humorous aspects of these things - that's what keeps me going when I'm writing a story.

I try to make things interesting and thought-provoking.

These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them.

Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

When I'm curious about something, I do it full on and take it as far as I go, but when I feel like I've really explored it, I'm OK with putting it aside and going on to something else.