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I'm a huge fan of 'The Exorcist.'

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.

Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

I just sort of write the book I feel like writing given the emotional place I am in my life at the time.

When I was a kid, I read books that made me laugh but also made me shiver in terror. I wanted to make books that made other people feel the same way.

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police procedural.

I've been obsessed with demons since reading 'The Elfstones of Shannara' and 'Master of the Five Magics' by Lyndon Hardy.