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One of the things that seems absolutely clear to me about werewolves - with their canine makeup - is that they would be dogs, as it were.

I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates.

The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.

I think we all have to fight the werewolf within us somehow.

We have all seen werewolf transformations hundreds of times on screen.

If being a werewolf is really a curse, you've got to treat it honorably. If werewolves are going to carry on, there has to be an incredibly powerful force. There is the business of the craving, the hunger for the kill. It has to be deeply pleasurable and more than an appetite for meat. There has to be a sensual dimension to it.

There are two ways to write a werewolf novel - you can examine the genre conventions, or you can say, 'What would it be like if I were a werewolf?'

If you live among wolves you have to act like a wolf.