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I am not a pure fiction writer, nor am I an academic writer. Somehow I ended up in this blended area of literary journalism.

I think of myself as a journalist and a storyteller.

I view myself as a fiction writer who just happens to write nonfiction. I think I look at the world through a fiction-writer's eyes.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

I wrote a lot of fiction, but it was just college stuff. It seems to me you have to be so confident in yourself to become a writer.

I'm a compulsive storyteller, an avid reader, and have always nurtured the secret goal of spending my life as a writer.

I was never a good journalist, because I would make things up. A lot of people frowned on that, which is why I ended up in fiction.

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

I read the newspapers avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.

I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.