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I don't really know what it is about vampires that makes them such a powerful symbol, metaphor, whatever in people's consciousness. But I do... →
I try to tell the best story, and the story that has some heart and some genuine terror and some social commentary and some comedy and some romance... →
Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I... →
I need to feel like the work I'm doing is not necessarily important, but meaningful, at least to me, because otherwise it just becomes a day job.... →
It's hard for me to get interested in stories that ignore death, which is what American marketing culture would like to do: pretend that death... →
Death showed up in my life very early on, so I'm aware of it. If you look at most of the things I write there's a sort of contemplation of... →
I don't believe in any particular definition of the afterlife, but I do believe we're spiritual creatures and more than our biology and that... →
I really feel like my goal, and I don't always achieve it, is to do the best work I can do, and stay out of the results. Because ultimately, the... →
I think all writers are armchair psychologists to some degree or another, and I think a character's sexuality is fascinating. It's a great... →
I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be... →
I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you.... →
Life is infinitely complex, and I feel like we live in a culture that really seems to want to simplify it into sound bites and bromides, and that... →
Most of us live in artificial environments and then we go to work in artificial environments and the world becomes something that you see through a... →