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Writing is inherently scary.

Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.

For me, it's very easy to write a horror movie that's just a succession of scary sequences, but it's hard to find horror movies that have a genuine theme to them that are really exploring some aspect of our psychology and our fears.

Any horror element is as much psychological as special effects.

Horror by definition is the emotion of pure revulsion. Terror of the same standard, is that of fearful anticipation.

Writing on assignment, with lots of money handed to you before you even began, got very scary for me. My dread of not being perfect, something I got from a childhood surrounded by powerful, successful people, began to infect everything I wrote.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.