Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description.
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
I am not now That which I have been.
Respect all the reasonable forms of activity in which the child engages and try to understand them.
There's only one person gets you sacked and that's the fans
Lindy Hoppers never die - they just swing out.