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?

She loved him because he had brought her back to life. She had been like a caterpillar in a cocoon, and he had drawn her out and shown her that she was a butterfly.

Having faith in God did not mean sitting back and doing nothing. It meant believing you would find success if you did your best honestly and energetically.

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.

I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

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