Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

I like to break left when people think I'm going to go right.

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

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

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

It was what you did, Wolgast understood; you started to tell a story about who you were, and soon enough the lies were all you had and you became that person.

A thousand recollected lives were passing through her, a thousand stories - of love and work, of parents and children, of duty and joy and grief. Beds slept in and meals eaten, and the bliss and pain of the body, and a view of summer leaves from a window on a morning it had rained; the nights of loneliness and the nights of love, the soul in it's body keeping always longing to be known.