The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a top hat.

I saw my one purpose in that moment, looking into that little girls eyes. I was the one who was meant to save her, that was my one purpose all this time.

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

Every book has got its challenges. You run into a plot point that you can't figure out, or a scene that you struggle to write and have to write 50 times.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

Writers who pretend that everything they're doing is completely new are full of it.

The sadness you feel is not your own. It's his sadness you feel in your heart, Amy, for missing you.