I tend to start at 9 o'clock in the morning and write until 3. Those are my best hours. They fit the other rhythms of the world. So I write for six hours, pretty much without any breaks.

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

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.

I like creating villains.

Here she was, a women who could bolt-load a crossbow in under a second, put half a dozen long arrows in the air in fewer than five, blade a target dead through the sweet spot at six meters, on the run, on an off day; and yet knitting a pair of baby booties seemed completely beyond her power.

I was a 'Planet of the Apes'-obsessed kid.