The world was a world of dreaming souls who could not die.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

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.

It's different being afraid when there's the hope it will amount to something.

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.

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

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