Proportion Is The Heart Of Beauty.

World War Ii Is The Greatest Drama In Human History, The Biggest War Ever And A True Battle Of Good And Evil. I Imagine Writers Will Continue To Get Stories From It, And Readers Will Continue To Love Them, For Many More Years.

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

The Cia's Research Program Is Described In A Book Called "the Search For The Manchurian Candidate."

I Don't Think There's Any Great Mystery To Writing Female Characters, So Long As You Talk To Them. If You Lived In A Monastery And Never Met Any Women, Maybe It Would Be Difficult.

There Was A Very Serious Communist Strain Among American Intellectuals Before The War. America Was A More Tolerant Place In Those Days, And Communists Were Not Treated As Pariahs. That Ended With The Mccarthy Era.