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• ‟ To me, nuclear weapons are the secret crisis of our time. Frankly, everyone needs to reread John Hersey's 'Hiroshima.'

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• ‟ At some point in the idea process, I simply wear myself down and force myself to choose. But here's the thing: Once I do choose, suddenly all the other possibilities wither and die, and thus I never have a backlog of well-formed ideas waiting for me when my latest book gets finished.

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• ‟ The head of the hurricane research division, Hugh Willoughby, told me that hurricanologists can predict the behavior of storms if those storms behave predictably.

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• ‟ I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

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• ‟ There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me in the strangest way.

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• ‟ I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

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• ‟ Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.

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• ‟ Unalloyed heroes and unalloyed villains make me suspicious.

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• ‟ It troubled me that we had these reports of torture of detainees, we had people jailed at Guantanamo Bay who couldn't even talk to their lawyers and couldn't see the evidence against them - sort of fundamental bedrock civil liberties things.

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• ‟ My secret weapon is my wife. She's the best judge. She's a scientist and a natural reader. We've developed a detailed code for how she marks a manuscript, and I think it's what saves me from wild digressions.

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