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I love history... everything is inspired by history, so that's why I love vintage and antiques.

Yeah, I love history and I loved it as a kid.

I love to read history; at its best, it is an art.

A certain point came when I wanted to document growing-up adventures.

Now, when I was in the Army, writing was my hobby.

I love reading about history. Sometimes, I feel I was born in the wrong era. There was more creativity in the air when people were still discovering new worlds.

History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

History releases me from my own experience and jogs my fictional imagination.