“What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your ...” — Joe Klein Quote

“What do you do in a novel? You take recognizable characters from your own life, and you fantasize about what they're really like.”

“That was the miracle of Abraham Lincoln, politician. He pursued the high purpose of moving justice forward via the low arts of patronage and patronization. Indeed, in a democracy, it is usually the only way great deeds are done.”

“Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.”

“In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.”

“Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe.”

“The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'”