But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.

I'll know when the ideas aren't fresh anymore. And I'll know when writing doesn't give me a thrill anymore.

But I've found that to talk too much about movies is the kiss of death. If it happens then it happens, is all.

But while our parting was mutually acceptable and even expedient, still it was painful. And I would like to think it hurt both of us, for I certainly felt it: a wrenching inside, like some small but improbably necessary organ was no longer in there, that it was missing, torn or fallen out. And at the time I'd thought that was the end of it; what was missing was gone forever

The Army was my bread and butter.

We've got one life and the older we get the more we come to realize how short it is.