I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

If a movie has more characters than an audience can keep track of, the audience will get confused and lose interest in the story.

Some people say "if we split up,we can cover more ground"-with blood

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.

I always say that the characters in Jane Austen's original books are rather like zombies because they live in this bubble of immense wealth and privilege and no matter what's going on around them they have a singular purpose to maintain their rank and to impress others.

We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

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