We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.

From a craft standpoint, telling a story in the first-person present tense over the course of 500 pages is a daunting challenge.

People will say that Canada, unlike America, was not birthed from violence. But I want to say, "What are you talking about?" It's just not true.

I never want to play down to the reader. I think readers are willing to go along if they're intrigued.

I'm a writer. I should be allowed to speak about my writing at times. And I'm really excited to speak about that. There's nothing I am shameful of or anything else in my novels. They are my children and I'm happy to speak about my children.

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy.

As a fiction writer, of course, you need to take some leeway with certain aspects of history to make the story work.