My day job is making TV shows..

I think any period in history can be adapted into interesting fiction, as long as you approach the actual history with respect..

I've always enjoyed reading history, particularly presidential biographies..

I nearly broke out laughing when the wrteched soothsayer warned Caesar: "Beware the Ides of April." I thought it a miracle (and a relief) that no one….

Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do; for I shall not have my best warrior ….

What makes a good book and what makes a good movie are totally different things..

Sometimes we see the Civil War in movies and imagine these neatly aligned rows of men with muskets, walking in line to shoot each other. In reality t….

But if you read Jane Austen, you know that she had a wicked sense of humor. Not only was she funny, but her early writing was very dark and had a got….

There are so many stories to tell in the worlds of science fiction, the worlds of fantasy and horror that to confine yourself to even doing historica….

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both..

The more precious His gift, the more anxious God for its return..

I've been a lifelong horror fan, but at the same time, I would say 90 percent of my reading is biographies and nonfiction history..

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose..

Real power... comes not from hate, but from truth..

It's absurd to think of 'Pride and Prejudice,' this classic, beloved book, beset with a zombie uprising. The goal is to make you suspend your disbeli….

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time..

Of all the weapons she had commanded, Elizabeth knew the least of love; and of all the weapons in the world, love was the most dangerous..

…Abe didn’t say a word. He made straight for his journal and wrote down a single sentence. One that would radically alter the course of his life, and….

Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness..

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?.

I want to be judged harshly because that forces me to really sit down and focus..