WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.

I always told my dad I'd play professional football.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

WWII is something contemporary readers already know a lot about. If our schools are doing their jobs, they know about the invasion of Normandy, the Hitler Youth, the Holocaust, and at least a few of the horrors of the Eastern Front.

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on.

You bury your childhood here and there. It waits for you, all your life, to come back and dig it up.

To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.