As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

My mother was a politician in my formative years.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.

I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.