All I ask is that my final months be happy ones, and that I be permitted a husband who will see to my proper Christian beheading and burial.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.


…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and bring a fledgeling nation to the brink of collapse.
I hereby resolve to kill every vampire in America.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.