Quotes from John Searles

What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?

Someone should take a vacuum cleaner to his sentences.

Your parents are never gone from you. You'll see that someday, hopefully a very long time from now.

You know, prayer and d-d-demons." My mother was quiet, thinking over his statement. At last, she said, "What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own? If you prefer to use those words, it's all right by me. So I make the same offer. If you like, we can meditate together on this fear you can't control." Heekin's

All my life until that night, I'd never heard such a horrible and unforgettable sound. When I did, I woke with a start,

I'm thinking I don't know what I'd possibly write about in a journal," I told him, even though I knew what he intended. But I'd spent so much time in other windowless rooms, recounting the details of that night at the church for a white-haired detective and a haggard-looking assistant district attorney, that I felt no desire to do it again.

If all the world hated you and believed you wicked, while your own conscience approved of you and absolved you from guilt, you would not be without friends.

go on, go on back down into the graveyard, lie down where you think their faces are; talk back to your old bad dreams.

A Curse Against Elegies": I refuse to remember the dead. And the dead are bored with the whole thing. But you—you go ahead, go on, go on back down into the graveyard, lie down where you think their faces are; talk back to your old bad dreams.

I love when it snows it slows everything down.

If there's one place drunks love, Sylvie, it's a public library. Nice and quiet when you're nursing a hangover. You can sleep the day away without anyone bothering you except maybe some nag of a librarian.

A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers 'Chucky.'

My personality has two sides: a very social side and a reclusive side. I love writing fiction, although I can't imagine ever being locked up in a room writing all the time.

My writing is sort of 'Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.'

I grew up in a two-bedroom house with my grandfather, my mom and dad and four kids. I slept on the couch or on the floor, and I always wanted to have my own space.

All my friends are female, I've edited for a magazine for young girls for 15 years, I relate to women, and I'm very, very close to my younger sister.

I've gone to readings to see authors after meeting them on Twitter. And while there, I've found myself sitting next to still more writers who I met on Twitter, too.

I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

People are often surprised that I am so upbeat. I'm always hearing, 'You're so light and funny, and your books are so dark and twisted.' There's a dichotomy. I like books that are dark and creepy. I don't control it - it's just what I gravitate toward.

My first day as an intern in the books department at 'Cosmopolitan' also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

I write in the mornings. I get up every morning at about six in the morning and write until nine, hop in the shower and go to work. Nighttime I usually reserve for re-reading what I've done that morning. I would be lying if I said I stuck to that schedule every single day.