Novelists never have to footnote.

If there's anything Trollope novels always take seriously, it is money - how it flows from one character to another, how it is managed, who has it, who deserves it, and what it means to a character, male or female.

I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.

Trollope wrote so many novels and other works that they tend to crowd each other out.

A love story, at least a convincing one, requires three elements - the lover, the beloved, and the adventures they have together.

The main thing about the novel that is totally fascinating: It's not possessed by the writer; it's possessed by the reader.

There is a sociology of horses, as well as a psychology. It is most evident in the world of horse racing, where many horses are gathered together, where year after year, decade after decade, they do the same, rather simple thing - run in races and try to win.