Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.

I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.

Suppose death had a heart to love and to release you, to whom would he turn this passion, would you chose a person from the crowd there. A person to suffer as you suffer.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?... Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?

….it was a brave man’s fear. I knew what he meant. What must a brave general feel when he knows the battle has gone against him and nothing remains but death?

You see,' [Armand] said, 'killing other vampires is very exciting; that is why it is forbidden under penalty of death.