I Fear That A Life Of Death

I Wrote One Terrible Manuscript After Another For A Decade And I Guess They Gradually Got A Little Less Terrible. But There Were Many, Many Unpublished Short Stories, Abandoned Screenplays And Novels... A Library Of Congress Worth Of Awful Literature.

My Job On 'dark Shadows' Was To Make It Fun And Funny, First And Foremost. It Can Still Be Dark And It Can Still Even Be Gory And Gothic At Times, But It Also Needed To Be Fun And It Needed To Be An Experience That People Would Enjoy Having.

I Would Much Prefer Their Minds To Be Engaged In The Deadly Arts Than Clouded With Dreams Of Marriage And Fortune, As Your Own So Clearly Is!

Hug Your Children...kiss Your Mothers And Fathers, Your Brothers And Sisters. Tell Them How Much You Love Them, Every Day. Because Every Day Is The Last Day. Every Light Casts A Shadow. And Only The Gods Know When The Darkness Will Find Us.

I Think Any Period In History Can Be Adapted Into Interesting Fiction, As Long As You Approach The Actual History With Respect.