I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

I love writers all across the board, but one who influenced me very directly at the beginning was Mary Renault.

No one more cynical than an idealist.

People are always the start for meanimals. When I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings,immortals, the deadthese are all people to me.

We all have our dreams. May we find them, and God have mercy on us when we do.