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Political biography is in the doldrums. No one wants to read 800 pages or so of cradle-to-grave dead politics, especially if it's familiar stuff and has all been written about before.

I think I want to write a biography, something with broad appeal, but I haven't figured out about whom.

Everybody makes personal decisions that are right for them and if you're in political life, you're used to having those analyzed.

I don't see that books can be written without political context - not if they're relevant and ambitious.

I'm not really a political satirist. I don't kid myself. I'm more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality.

Presidential biography is, by its nature, out of scale; no character is bigger, no action greater, than the person and the doings of the American president.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.