I decided that, somehow, I had to get out of there and go to Hollywood. I had never been to America.
“I'm very lucky. I'm very fortunate that my books have never gone out of print - none of them.”
“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.”