People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

The thing should have plot and character, beginning, middle and end. Arouse pity and then have a catharsis. Those were the best principles I was ever taught.

The only pain in pleasure is the pleasure of the pain.

That process by which you become a writer is a pretty lonely one. We don't have a group apprenticeship like a violinist might training for an orchestra.

Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

Obviously, a writer can't know everything about what she writes. It's impossible.

Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

Memnoch the Devil happen to be my favorite of all The Vampire Chronicles.

The whole theme of Interview with the Vampire was Louis's quest for meaning in a godless world. He searched to find the oldest existing immortal simply to ask, What is the meaning of what we are?

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

It is tragic that many in America think of us - Christians - as being people who hate others.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.