There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
Copy Quote View & ShareBoth my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.
Copy Quote View & ShareSeptember 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.
Copy Quote View & ShareThe thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere are always a few who stand up in times of communal madness and have the courage to say that what unites us is greater than what divides us.
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