Rod Serling...

"Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull."

James M. Cain....

"I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept."

John Updike....

"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teenaged boy finding them and having them speak to him."