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

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.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

I like creating villains.

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

When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.