You must understand that when you are writing a novel you are not making anything up. It's all there and you just have to find it.
Thomas HarrisWriting novels is the hardest thing I've ever done, including digging irrigation ditches.
Thomas HarrisHannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-listened to the climax. He was watching and breathing Lady Murasaki...
Thomas Harris