I'd like to write a history, maybe of the Reformation.

People always seemed to know half of history, and to get it confused with the other half.

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.

I tend to come up with people more than situations - most of my books start with a character.

I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter.

I was the executive editor on a little magazine called Greek Accent, whose only claim to fame is that its art director went on to be the art director of Discover for many years.

In my day, we didn't have self-esteem, we had self-respect, and no more of it than we had earned.