20 Quotes by Brian Keene

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story.

Jesus Christ-" "Is Not here right now," the man in black replied,"and even if he were, he could not save you.

... When you died, you were supposed to live on in the memories of others. That's what I'd always been told. Didn't matter what you believed, which religion you subscribed to, what god you worshipped. The simple fact was that none of us knew what lay beyond. Immortality and eternal life? The only sure shot at that was the memories of those you left behind - your friends and family...

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.

'Castaways' was a play on what if a reality show like 'Survivor' was unknowingly set on an island inhabited by a sub-human race of creatures? Readers have often asked me to consider turning the short story into a full-length novel. So I did.

'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.