Sometimes a story grabs hold of you and won't let go..

There were others, women with stories that were told in a quieter voice: women who hid Jewish children in their homes, putting themselves directly in….

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe..

In the end, there's only one thing you can believe. Bodies are honest; they don't lie..

To be honest, I wrote so many drafts of this book [ The Nightingale ] and changed the characters so many times; the real surprise is that I finished ….

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true..

I see the emphasis on a lot of ideas and I know that's directed at me. [Megan Chance] come up with an idea, hone it, and write it. I come up with thi….

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?.

Andrée De Jongh story led me to other stories of women who joined the Resistance in France. I found literally dozens of memoirs written by women who ….

The material world is simply an expression of the mind; that's what so many fail to see. We're so dependent on what is before us that we discount our….

Honestly, I really didn't want to take on World War II France, but when I came across the story of a nineteen-year-old Belgian woman who created an e….

Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have no hope of understandi….

Coming up with the idea is the worst part of writing for me..

People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty..

I had read a lot of books on World War II, but I didn't know that downed airmen had hiked over the frozen peaks of the Pyrenees Mountains in shoes th….

I know I'm not normal in this, but [ Severus ] Snape is absolutely my favorite character in the Harry Potter books. He is completely mortal - good, b….

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting..

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand..

With The Nightingale, I had been kicking the idea around for years. I was frightened to write it because on the surface it seems so different for me..

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as w….

It felt like an oversight to me, something that needed to be corrected. They [women who hid Jewish children] deserved to be understood and remembered..