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 Horror/Scary: April 19, 2017 Issue [#8239] |
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut. 
Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. 
The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool. 
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen. 
You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. 
People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk. 
I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud. 
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win. 
The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. 
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.' 
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside. 
