I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

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

He sat by her, watching every gesture she made, as if he would paint her portrait afterward.

The dictate of the light says: Know yourself and what you are. The dark replies, By all means, but then become afraid.

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

Condemned and executioner with aren't coupled in a primitive rite.

When I started as a writer, I knew nothing about publishing-nothing about anything!