If you're a writer, you're always working.

I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

I'm not really a mass market writer.

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.