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Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith.

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting.

True character arises from a deeper well than religion.

I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there.

I read secular fiction, but also enjoy novels with a Christian worldview.

Rereading, we find a new book.

I think religion played a huge part in Bush's re-election.

Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.

Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the others.