20 Quotes by Kim Newman

Somehow, the notion that Professor Moriarty had parents - might have been a child - never sat right. A viper is a snake straight from the egg. I couldn't help but picture little Jamie as a balding midget in a sailor suit, spying Cook and the baker's boy rolling in the flour on the kitchen table through his toy telescope, and blackmailing them for extra buns.

How did your parents come to be "lost at sea", Moriarty?'The professor paused, and said, 'Mysteriously, Moran.

He stroked Tibbles, who was starting to leak and make nasty little noises.

We need to stop the little girl," said Richard "pass me that shotgun.

-La plata y la estaca me romperán el corazón, mas los hombres jamás me herirán.

I've often described my book 'Anno Dracula' as 'literally, a vampire novel' - in that it battens on to other novels and sucks their lifeblood, transforming as well as feeding off them.

Dracula can sustain many interpretations and exists in many phantasmal forms... and Johnny Alucard is my attempt to explore the multiplicity of Draculas unloosed on the world in the long wake of Stoker's novel.

Relevance, Wilde once explained, was a careless habit that should not be over-indulged.

It was as if there were but one woman in the world, laughing at him from behind a dozen masks.