Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

And I had always liked vampire stories because they are great material that can be refashioned in lots of ways.

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

If you write a good action sequence well in a novel, you're already writing it for film, because the only way to do it well is to use some of the same tricks. They're rhetorical, not visual, but it's the same move.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

Kittredge had obviously misjudged her, but he had learned that was the way with most people. The story was never the story, and it surprised you, how much another person could carry.