I'm Basically An Upper West Side Jewish

I Don't Really Write Plots. I Use History As The Engine That Drives Everything.

If You're A Writer, You're Always Working.

It Takes Me Three Months Of Research And Nine Months Of Work To Produce A Book. When I Start Writing, I Do Two Pages A Day; If I'm Gonna Do 320, That's 160 Days.

Politicians Were Like Talking Dogs In A Circus: The Fact That They Existed Was Uncommonly Interesting, But No Sane Person Would Actually Believe What They Said

I Don't Just Want My Books To Be About The '30s And '40s. I Want Them To Read As If They Had Been Written Then. I Think Of Them As '40s Novels, Written In The Conservative Narrative Past.