- Vampires have become the Star Trek of horror.
- The Internet has become karaoke for would-be writers.
- More people will see the worst movie you ever make than read the best book you ever write. [This was dubbed "Schow's Law" by Paula Guran)
- The curse of creativity is that artists cannot pick the work that makes them immortal.
- The short story is still the first, earliest, most basic, most challenging and best means of purveying fiction.
- Frank Dietz and I are the 20th Century's Big Media Babies. Our primary school was movie theaters and broadcast TV. Our high school was videotape. Our college consisted of becoming studiously obsessed keepers of the flame, preservers of the past, collectors. And our maturity, largely, has to do with finding ways to make [our] monsters recompense that diligence and faith.
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