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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

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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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Country Except Feeling Foreign Language Reader Been Some
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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Beat Began Civilization Country End Heart Western
I invented the historical spy novel.
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Historical Invent Novel Spy
I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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Audience Book Expect Have Like Lot People Read
I read very little contemporary anything.
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Anything Contemporary Little Read
the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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Actual Believe Exist Fact Interest Person Sane Uncommonly
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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Book Forty Just Raed Thirty Want Written
Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Good People Spend Time
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.
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All Abot Bad Dog Good Lawn Move People Play Spend Think Time
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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Book Month Months Nine Produce Research Take Three Work
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
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Brain Censorship Head Office Person Serious Stick Tell Very
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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Book Chase Country Else Novel Reality Somebody
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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Came Country Frontier Newspaper Next Radio Telephone Tomorrow Trust
I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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Drive Engine Everything History Plot Really Use Write
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Nerve One Pretend
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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Character Once Tell Write

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