There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.

I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity is. I feel most comfortable writing about monsters. It's possible that I feel like a monster myself. Or maybe it's because we all have a monster inside of us, a vampire, a ghost, a witch or a werewolf. You do it because it works and it feels really right and authentic.

I think to feel this happy is to be miserable, to feel this much satisfaction is to burn.

I was influenced by the medieval theological beliefs when I presented Satan in Jesus' dream as unable to figure out who or what Jesus is, and unable to see the future.

Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.