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

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

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

I read very little contemporary anything.

I'm not really a mass market writer.

It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.