I Read Mostly Fiction, A Lot Of

I Went And Looked At One Of These Great Cathedrals One Day, And I Was Blown Away By It. From There I Became Interested In How Cathedrals Were Built, And From There I Became Interested In The Society That Built The Medieval Cathedral. It Occurred To Me At Some Point That The Story Of The Building Of A Cathedral Could Be A Great Popular Novel.

I Read Mostly Fiction, A Lot Of 19th-century Novels.

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

Trusting Someone Was Like Holding A Little Water In Your Cupped Hands - It Was So Easy To Spill The Water, And You Could Never Get It Back.

In Both Cases, Weakness And Scruples Had Defeated Strength And Ruthlessness.