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" Because I read so much nonfiction for work, I enjoy fiction most, especially detective novels and mysteries that keep me awake at night. "

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" I don't normally do pure historical work. "

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" There's a tendency when we write history to do it with the power of hindsight and then assume almost god-like knowledge that nobody living through history has. "

" To be honest, I used to always procrastinate when I write. I mean, I love writing, but I hate it. "

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" I spend my life mostly disproving conspiracies. "

" I grew up around writers, and there was always a romance to them. They were charming. They would tell their stories of what they were working on, over the table. "

" Although baseball actually began as a game played largely by urban toughs, its image was soon reconstructed to mirror the country's pastoral myth. "

" I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side. "

" Books were a huge part of my childhood growing up. We would go on vacation, and my mom was always carting manuscripts around. "

" I love the magic of stories and the power of stories. "

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" I've done a lot of stories over the years, and sometimes there are larks, and they're fun, and you kind of move on. "

" I had many different careers early on. I knew I wanted to be a writer. But, like so many people, I didn't know how to be one - other than just do it. I didn't know what form it would take. "

" One of my favorite authors to read is Eric Ambler, who helped pioneer the form of realistic suspense novels. "

" I really just choose stories that are compelling, have interesting trends and characters, and hopefully say something larger about society. "

" I don't hunt, I don't camp, and I get lost on my subway to work here in Times Square! "

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" Baseball, of course, has long been played under the burden of metaphor. More so than basketball or football, it is supposed to represent something larger than itself. "

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" Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite. "

" I covered Congress, and everyone always wanted me to be a political reporter. "

" The public, the whites - not just in Oklahoma, but across the United States - were transfixed by the Osage wealth which belied images of Native Americans that could be traced back to the first brutal contact with whites. "

" Like many people, I kicked around, struggled to become a writer, finally got my first full-time job around 27, 28, at 'The Hill' newspaper. They hired me as a copy editor, which was kind of funny because I'm semi-blind because I have an eye disorder. "

" I'm a very slow reader. "