I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madness. Like River from 'Firefly' or Drusilla from 'Buffy.' Someone dangerously unhinged, where you're really not sure they're going to be reliable minute-to-minute.

There's never really been a time when vampires weren't so over that you would be crazy to write a vampire book, or so huge that you would be crazy to write a vampire book. I'm not sure there's ever going to be a time. We went from Anne Rice to Buffy to 'Twilight.'

Everything scares me. I'm very easily frightened. But the thing that scares me most is zombies. I really, really don't like zombies.

I don't feel prolific. I feel like I'm plodding along. Each day you sit down, and you hope that you get your work done.

Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.

There is something of yours that i would like to return to you . . . He leaned across the distance between them and caught her mouth with his own.