The world doesn't need any more mediocrity or hedged bets.
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
Evil is always possible. Goodness is a difficulty.
We have to become saints. We have to become like Christ. Anything less is simply not enough.
I broke with my religion in college.
I'm going to keep on dealing with the supernatural in a lot of ways.
I'm always looking, and I'm always asking questions.
I can't get very far away from Christianity, I can't get very far away from the angels and the saints. I work them in always, in some way.
I do not read the ancient languages, but I am beginning to study Greek.
I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. I've always had a very close relationship with them.
I do want to go another way - to write something completely different.
Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.
When I write something, every word of it is meant. I can't say it enough.
The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.
I'm fascinated by almost any mythology that I can get my hands on...
You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.
To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.
The vampires have always been metaphors for me. They've always been vehicles through which I can express things I have felt very, very deeply.
I feel like an outsider, and I always will feel like one. I've always felt that I wasn't a member of any particular group.
