After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.

I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.

But desperate people find courage.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.