“I’m a genre writer.”

I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

I don’t inflict horrors on readers.

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.

On the Greek frontier, one wasn’t sure what came next. So, don’t trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.

Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.

You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.

When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.

The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.

I try to show the students what the major and minor genres of folklore are, and how they can be analyzed.

There hasn’t been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres.

They do everything from gangsta rap to polka music and every genre in between. It’s amazing.

In a genre where most of the artists are one-hit wonders, I’ve been able to hang around longer than most “serious” acts. I pride myself in being a very talented leech.

Is that I get to constantly do different things, put on different hats, be different people, and mixing up the genre really lends itself to that.

Aet in a world full of new ideas, expanding the horizons of the genre.

It’s a great genre because you can do a lot. Sometimes in thrillers, you can really explore things, and it’s the same in this genre.

It’s not fundamentally different to any other genre, that action is a particular thing.