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"On the other hand, now that I'm not dependent on fiction for my income, I've been writing more short stories despite the fact that there's no real paying market for short horror other than Cemetery Dance."

"I've devoted a lot of my time and effort during the past few years to developing my advertising copywriting business to the point of where I can support my family and don't have to depend on writing fiction for my income."

"I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself."

"I've been reading horror since I was five years old."

"Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too."

"The benefit of this kind of outlining is that you discover a story's flaws before you invest a lot of time writing the first draft, and it's almost impossible to get stuck at a difficult chapter, because you've already done the work to push through those kinds of blocks."

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"When I was a teenager, I got into SF, quite heavily, and that too has had a major impact on my writing."

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"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."

"If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it."

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"Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own."

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"Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream."

"The writer is the engineer of the human soul."

"If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate: The "Ode on a Grecian Urn" is worth any number of old ladies."

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