"I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape — the loneliness of it; the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn't show."
- Andrew Wyeth
"...the thing with October is, I think, it somehow gets in your very blood. Unapologetically. Almost ruthlessly."
- Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait in Letters
"No one can get into a novel about a haunted house without hitting the subject of reality head-on; either I have to believe in ghosts, which I do, or I have to write another kind of novel altogether."
- Shirley Jackson