I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

History is absolutely my thing.

I never have the feeling that I actually know what I'm doing or anything that I'm writing is any good.

It occurred to me at some point that what really links us to the past is memory, and there's so much we've forgotten.

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.