Michael Koryta

I would say of characters I've created, the one I've felt the most connected to emotionally was Adam Austin from 'The Prophet.'…

— Michael Koryta

You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else…

— Michael Koryta

“...what still blew them all away was time itself, the days and months and the years, oh yes, the years. They went…

— Michael Koryta

In 'The Prophet' I really fell in love with those characters, there was an emotional connection there that I don't think I've…

— Michael Koryta

Stephen King, by far, is the standard-bearer. I think anyone who writes suspense fiction and says that King isn't an influence is…

— Michael Koryta

I think pressure can be an incentive toward improvement, and while I'm not denying that I feel some, I will also stress…

— Michael Koryta

I finished my first novel - it was around 300 pages long - when I was 16. Wrote one more before I…

— Michael Koryta

I've always listened to music while I write, but none of my work has been so directly impacted by a song as…

— Michael Koryta

For 'So Cold the River,' I'm actually working on adapting the book with Scott Silver, who was just nominated for an Oscar…

— Michael Koryta

Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you…

— Michael Koryta

Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that…

— Michael Koryta

'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel…

— Michael Koryta

I think if you looked at the kind of ebb and flow of supernatural fiction and horror fiction, it does seem to…

— Michael Koryta

I started writing as soon as I started reading.

— Michael Koryta

In terms of characters I wish I had created - just because I haven't dealt with anything like them - I'm really…

— Michael Koryta

“An honorable quality.”

— Michael Koryta

We understand tornadoes scientifically, but it still feels supernatural. The randomness makes it feel supernatural.

— Michael Koryta

I'd worked at a small town newspaper, and I was thinking of all the strange stories that I had seen float through…

— Michael Koryta

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would…

— Michael Koryta

When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that…

— Michael Koryta

“You became what you wanted to become. That's what Ezra believe. You could become it if you tried hard enough, could take…

— Michael Koryta

Band of Skulls is joining Cage the Elephant as my new musical caffeine.

— Michael Koryta

Ultimately, in my mind, that's what I'm trying to do with my fiction; I'm trying to transport my reader into a different…

— Michael Koryta

Chris Columbus, who directed the first two Harry Potter films and was the family comedy king through the '80s and '90s -…

— Michael Koryta

Hopefully my books are improving. One of the ways I find motivation to improve is looking at someone who is already at…

— Michael Koryta