So long as this country is cursed with slavery, so too will it be cursed with vampires.

If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things.

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 dare say she means to keep you from his attentions. Your honour demands she be slain.

My men have suffered greatly (from boredom), much blood has been shed (by mosquitoes), and I have swung my ax mightily (chopping firewood). Surely we have earned our place in the annals of history—for never has there been so little war in a war.

We may all deserve hell, but some of us deserve it sooner than others.