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

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I invented the historical spy novel.
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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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I don’t just want my books to be about the ’30s and ’40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as ’40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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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.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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