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 never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

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

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

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.