I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.

'Mom' isn't an adjective or a personality; they're not all the same.

The way humor's usually used in horror, it's as a pressure-release valve; without it, the drama would escalate out of all control almost immediately.

Neal Stephenson handles exposition better than anybody else. I keep trying to learn his tricks, but every time I duck into his pages, I get lost in the stories all over again and forget that I'm a writer.

You can't negotiate with a zombie. They have only one impulse - that's to eat us or our brains.