Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.
I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.
First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.
I would pay to do what I do if I had to.
The title always comes last. What I really work hard on is the beginning. Where do you begin? In what tone do you begin? I almost have to have a scene in my mind.
To me history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is.