Any writing teacher tells you to write what you know, and for better or for worse, Washington is a world I know well.

The more you write, the better you will get at writing. The better you get at writing, the more you will write.

It's all discipline and schedule for me. I mean, it's very easy to get distracted by the real world and things that intrude constantly, and it takes dedication to live totally in your head and be tuned out.

In actuality, 'Sammy's House' can and should be read as an entirely fictional comedy set in a fascinating political world.

'The Turner Diaries' is a racist daydream by a former physics teacher writing under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald.

Oh my God, I used to get heartburn and all sorts of indigestion and stuff because I didn't feel well. And you know, I sit a lot because I write, and I gained a whole bunch of weight. My vanity just got to me, and I was like, 'I've got to do something!'