We’re all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.” Sam - Robert Bloch

It was the knife that, a moment later, cut off her scream.

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed.

I urge you with all sincerity to get to work, write a book, write two — three — four books, just as a matter of course. Don’t worry about ‘wasting’ an idea or ‘spoiling’ a plot by going too fast. If you are capable of turning out a masterpiece, you’ll get other and even better ideas in the future. Right now your job is to write, and to write books so that by so doing you’ll gain the experience to write still better books later on.