“I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures...”

“I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.”

“Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.”

“I was always treated as if I had insisted on being born, in opposition to the dictates of reason, religion, and morality, and against the dissuadinig arguments of my best friends.”

“Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved”

“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. ”