Some people say, 'Write what you know.' My thing is, 'Write what scares you.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Writing is inherently scary.
I like to write in a shroud of secrecy because I have to keep finding ways to scare myself.
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'
I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.
I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.
I don't have the fear I won't be able to think of something else to write. It's what I do.
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustrophobic. I say, 'Write what you want to know.'