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There are many vampires in the world today... you only have to think of the film business.

Similarities in the vampire genre are so rampant that there's really no such thing as an original idea - only an original take on an idea that's been done before.

Vampires are so sexy and powerful - they're so otherworldly; they have eternal life and youth.

Vampires are a genre now.

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

You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're dealing with art or the life of Christ or the oeuvre of Shakespeare, you know, it's a little more ambitious.

People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We all feel small and powerless in the world at times, so the temptation to be a vampire is compelling.

Vampires aren't made - they're just born that way, and no one knows why. They're sort of a race unto themselves.

All writers are vampires.

I think vampires would want to find a way to stay attached to the living, the way human beings do, and that is through love, interrelations and meaning.