It is a very beautiful story, 'The Crow.' It is a very tragic story with huge emotional themes.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
It is a political thriller. It's very action packed and it's very exciting, but at the same time it's a very big soulful love story about longing and loss. They're not separate, they're completely dependent on one another.
'Love and Terror on the Howling Plains of Nowhere' took me six years to write.
Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all kinds of things.
I really love the story in 'Twilight.'
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
For every story you hear that's tragic, there's another that's equally tragic or more so. I think you come to look at it as part of life.
It was just like Howlin' Wolf. Once you arrive at the point that you understand it, the emotional factor is darker than some of the saddest blues stuff.
I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
'To Kill A Mockingbird' is one of my favourite novels, my mum brought me up reading it, and it never fails to move me.