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

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

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 think the past is something I have spent a lot of time thinking about, not only what is different about the past but what's the same, and what links us to the past.

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

I am very into genealogy and heritage, and that's how I started writing.