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Fear is one of the worst, and most limiting, emotions in life.

I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

I don't like to get scared - it's not one of the emotions I enjoy. So I have to assume that if there are scary things in my books, they aren't very scary.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

I always felt that what is scary is actually hearing someone tell you what they think they see. That sense of invisibility makes things a lot scarier, since your imagination tends to fill in the gaps.

Emotions are messy and hard to figure out.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

I feel often that we don't have the right language to talk about emotions in disasters. Everyone is on edge, of course, but it also pulls people away from a lot of trivial anxieties and past and future concerns and gratuitous preoccupations that we have, and refocuses us in a very intense way.