Very often the characters people respond to best have little parts of reality they can relate to.

Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.

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

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

Copywriters, journalists, mainstream authors, ghostwriters, bloggers and advertising creatives have as much right to think of themselves as good writers as academics, poets, or literary novelists.

History at its best is a gritty, dirty business.

Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.