I think it would be a shame for any writer to let their publishers in any way corral them into a single genre.

I think the only difference between me and other people is that when I hear of an interesting historical incident, I immediately write it down and Google it.

I'm constantly saying, 'I read a fascinating article in 'The New Yorker'... ' I say it so often that sometimes I think I have nothing interesting to say myself, I merely regurgitate 'The New Yorker.'

You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don't have a house style.

I think all characters are facets of the writer. In a way, they have to be if you're going to write them convincingly.

Every parent has those moments where they look at their child and think, 'There's a demon in those eyes and no one can see it but me!'