I was a newborn vampire, weeping at the beauty of the night.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

Aren't there gradations of evil? Is evil a great perilous gulf into which one falls with the first sin, plummeting to the depth?

No one is safe from nature's savagery,not even the innocent. Only beauty is consistent. Gabrielle envisions a time when the Savage Garden will overtake civilizations and destroy it.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

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.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.