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I've loved vampires for a very long time. In eighth grade, I guess, my research paper was on vampires.

Vampires used to be like Dracula, and now they're young teenage kids, so yeah, I like that.

I've always been a Dracula/vampire aficionado, being half-Romanian myself. Dracula has always been close to my heart - in fact, I have a first edition of Bram Stoker's book. I read it over and over again as a young kid.

I definitely fell in love with 'Dracula' when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.

I was obsessed with vampires when I was 13 or 14.

When I started writing about vampires, I swore that I wouldn't touch the 'Dracula' legend because it's been done too many times.

I really like vampire books. I might have a problem.

When I go home, the last thing I want to do is read about the popular lore of vampires.

There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.

The phenomenon of vampires has always appealed to me. Everyone kind of likes a vampire story because it almost could be true.