“The basic task of education is the care and feeding of the imagination.”

“Obviously, I love to do both contemporary and historical fiction. When a hint of a story grabs me, I try to go with it to see where it will take me whatever the setting.”

“Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.”

“You never know ahead of time what something's really going to be like.”