I had never really understood what an adventure life could be, if you followed your heart and did what you really wanted to do, which is what we must all do in the end.

I always thought that bagels and lox was my soul food, but it turns out it's sushi.

We can learn so much looking outside our core field of expertise.

Writing about the 1950s has given me tremendous respect for my mother's generation.

It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.

Historical fiction of course is particularly research-heavy. The details of everyday life are there to trip you up. Things that we take for granted, indeed, hardly think about, can lead to tremendous mistakes.

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find ways to change and hopefully improve it.