Brian Keene

I tend to spend a lot of time building characters that the reader will believe in and sympathize with.

Don't just rehash what came before. Find new things to do with it, in your unique voice.

'Ghoul' was what my world looked like, growing up in the late Seventies and early Eighties, and what I thought it looked like. A lot of my personal experiences went into it.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I like villains because there's something so attractive about a committed person - they have a plan, an ideology, no matter how twisted. They're motivated.

I would've done anything to work with Satyajit Ray.