For Historians, Creative Writers Provide A Kind

I Only Became A Novelist Because I Thought I Had Missed My Chance To Become A Historian.

I Do Myself Think That History Is A Set Of Skills Rather Than A Narrative.

It Is All Very Well Planning What You Will Do In Six Months, What You Will Do In A Year, But It’s No Good At All If You Don’t Have A Plan For Tomorrow.

Sometimes Peace Looks Like War, You Cannot Tell Them Apart.

Back In My 20s, When I Wrote 'a Place Of Greater Safety,' The French Revolution Novel, I Thought, 'i'll Always Have To Write Historical Novels Because I Can't Do Plots.'' But In The Six Years Of Writing That Novel, I Actually Learned To Write, To Invent Things.