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

I see the emphasis on a lot of ideas and I know that's directed at me. [Megan Chance] come up with an idea, hone it, and write it. I come up with thirty ideas, flesh each one out, research each one, come up with characters, and then decide I don't like it.

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

[ The Nightingale ]ended up being a huge undertaking - a daunting amount of research on a subject that many people know intimately, a country I had not yet been to when I first started planning the book, an entire war.

I read a ton of fiction - historical, contemporary, literary, commercial, I love it all.

I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books. He is completely mortal - good, bad, strong, weak, motivated by hatred, motivated by love. A gorgeous, compelling, complex character who definitely earns a spot at my table.

I think The Nightingale is my best, most mature, most moving novel, but maybe that's just because I love these characters. I love the setting.