I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people’s writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people’s fiction. Just don’t.
If I’d been easily discouraged, I could have been a one-hit wonder.
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I’m too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print.
My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends – I can give them advice, but they don’t have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people.
Fear will keep you alive; indifference won’t.
Nothing turns to hate so bitter as what once was love.
Somehow I think Trophy Wives wear more makeup and less cutlery. But hey, I haven’t ever met a Trophy Wife, maybe I’m wrong. Maybe they know what I know, that the true way to a man’s heart is six inches of metal between his ribs.
Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.
He’d kill you all right. No sweat. But for the wrong reasons. Amateur’s reasons. Of course, you’ll be just as dead.
He was twenty. I remembered twenty. I’d known everything at twenty. It took me another year to realize I knew nothing. I was still hoping to learn something before I hit thirty, but I wasn’t holding my breath.
There are some things more important than physical survival. You gotta be able to look at yourself in the mirror.
If your life works, and you work in it, then it’s okay, whatever is happening is okay.
What is love? Sometimes it’s just letting yourself be who and what you are, and letting the person you’re supposed to love be who and what he is too. Or maybe what and who they are.
Hatred makes us all ugly.
I’m not a morning person.
Hatred is a cold fire, and it gives no warmth.
When you dance with the devil, it might as well be a devil who can give you your own corner of hell to rule.
Sometimes love isn’t about being smart. Sometimes it’s about being stupid together.
True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That’s illusion and lies to me.
There are only two kinds of vampire hunters: good ones and dead ones.