Author

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

You can really do more than you think you can do.

Is anything accidental?

I write in American slang.

I believe that interest in heroes is universal and eternal.

I never learned to read music.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.

I was a precocious reader.