I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.

The CIA's research program is described in a book called "The Search for the Manchurian Candidate."

When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?

Nevertheless, the book gave Jack a feeling he had never had before, that the past was like a story, in which one thing led to another, and the world was not a boundless mystery, but a finite thing that could be comprehended.

But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.

Culture clash is terrific drama.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.