Victoria's got her secrets. Hey, so do I!
A book is not completed till it's read.
You make 'em, I amuse 'em.
I am not a consecutive writer.
Scotland just isn't terribly Tory.
I myself do not believe in explaining anything.
What you've got to say, you say.
I'm a journalist, I run to the fire, that's what we do.
Writing novels is the most exciting.
The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
I don't judge myself by what someone says.
As a historical novelist, there are few jobs more retrospective.
Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.
Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric.
The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.
Postmodernism cost literature its audience.
Chicago is not the most corrupt American city. It's the most theatrically corrupt.
My audience is going to die before I do.
We are lost, but we're making good time.
Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.
