She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

The degradation to which you subject others comes back, sooner or later, to haunt you.

A baby was like a revolution, Grigori thought: you could start one, but you could not control how it would turn out.

Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers.