I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

Nobody believes this, but I write very fast,

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.

I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.