I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished the book at all.

Sometimes a story grabs hold of you and won't let go.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understanding the universe. Some things are unknowable.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

Historical tends to be my bailiwick.