"Yes, I was academically inclined. I was the good student. I raised my hand a lot. I got good grades, and I tended to …"

"Shatter her beauteous breast ye may; The Spirit of England none can slay! Dash the bomb on the dome of Paul's, — Deem…"

"There’s a part of me in every I write, whether it’s male or female, because everything has to go through me. Everythi…"

"Success did come to me later, but that was okay, I could feel myself getting better with each story or book. Age does…"

"I’ve always been fascinated with this sense that every single person walking down the street has a whole story. It’s …"

"My great-grandmother would talk about her uncles who served in the Maine Regiment during the Civil War, my great-gran…"

"The past contains many answers, but until we ask the right questions their meaning eludes us."

"...All historians are nonfiction writers, whether we know it or not."

"We need some citizens committed to exploring and producing knowledge, as well as consuming it, and the outcomes canno…"

"...After the more prosperous era of the mid-1990s through around 2008, we seem to have forgotten the truly dreadful m…"