I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The only book worth writing is the book that threatens to kill you.
In some ways, the best novel about terrorism, though it's not a novel, is 'The Looming Tower' by Lawrence Wright or 'Perfect Soldiers' by Terry McDermott.
Probably not needing to be published would give me more time to think about a book.
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
I think I wanted to write a book about the relationship between the victim and perpetrator in which the victim agrees to remain silent.
There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.
You could easily do a book of Marshawn Lynch's quotes, which have a quite serious political pushback. I think he's really amazing.
We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
I think the only boundaries are individual and personal. A writer should be free to write about anything he or she wants to, including the twin towers. I have made small references to 9/11 in my past two books.