I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history.

I feel like the luckiest guy on the planet. But, I literally work all day, every day, seven days a week, 365 days a year, and that's not an exaggeration.

I wouldn't back away from what's right just because it's hard.

So I grew up in a very book-friendly environment and my education as a writer was reading. I think that's the best education. Reading, and taking from the people I admired.

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness.

Your quarrel is with God. I merely wish to offer Him the opportunity to judge you.

And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.