You cannot underestimate the influence of Shakespeare..

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is..

People think I live here on Nantucket and just gaze at the ocean, getting my inspiration. Not so. I work in my basement and gaze out onto a single wi….

Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, wri….

As Herman Melville wrote of that seagoing monster of a man Captain Ahab, “All mortal greatness is but disease..

Enthusiasm is big. When I write a book, it's a three-year commitment. Toward the end, I'm writing seven days a week, and it's exhausting but thrillin….

To my mind, an adventure is something a person willingly undertakes..

You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points..

I follow the Patriots, but the Steelers were my first and true love. I still have a terrible towel..