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Nevertheless, The Book Gave Jack A Feeling He Had Never Had Before, That The Past Was Like A Story, In Which One Thing Led To Another, And The World Was Not A Boundless Mystery, But A Finite Thing That Could Be Comprehended.

My Favorite Period Is World War Ii, And I'm In The Middle Of Writing My Fourth Novel Set In That Era.

We All Now Tell Stories By Cutting From One Dramatic Scene To The Next, Whereas Victorian Novelists Felt Free To Write Long Passages Of Undramatic Summary.

I Like Reading History, And Actually Most Authors Enjoy The Research Part Because It Is, After All, Easier Than Writing.

I Wanted To Be Some Kind Of Captain Of Industry. Then I Wanted To Be In Advertising, And Then I Wanted To Be A Newspaper Reporter.