I don't like my birthday. I don't like things that are directed towards me. It took me a long time to get over people asking me to write my name in the book.

When Charles Dickens arrived in Boston Harbor, where he started, they had to keep it secret because there was such a mob of people expecting him, and they actually chased down his carriage at the hotel, the Parker House Hotel.

What's most explosive about historical fiction is to use the fictional elements to pressure the history to new insights.

Matthew Pearl Quotes