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.

We're naturally afraid of a spider - these are memories that are being chemically passed down through your DNA.

I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

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.

I love getting into the basement of a courthouse, and all the dusty records - all that stuff makes me really happy.

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 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.