“I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.”

“I can describe an axe entering a human skull in great explicit detail and no one will blink twice at it. I provide a similar description, just as detailed, of a penis entering a vagina, and I get letters about it and people swearing off. To my mind this is kind of frustrating, it’s madness. Ultimately, in the history of [the] world, penises entering vaginas have given a lot of people a lot of pleasure; axes entering skulls, well, not so much.”

“I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart.”

“I just LOVE reading stories about vampires! I can't get enough of them!”

“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn getting yourself dusty, then you shouldn't try to write fiction. It's not a grand enough job for you.”

“That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.”