I understand that when people read my books that there's something there - but I don't identify with it.
“If you don't look like Rupert Graves or Hugh Grant, they'll have you playing the gardener.”
“I always thought of vampires, especially the young-adult ones, as a metaphor for sex - sucking blood, forbidden, taboo. I think they just ooze sex. Vampires are all the big themes in life in one attractive, bloodsucking package.”