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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Horror Inflict Reader
I read very little contemporary anything.
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Anything Contemporary Little Read
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 grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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Book Degree Genre People Person Raed Writer
Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Banker Blissful Kind Martyrs Peasant Show Starve Wept While Wise
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
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
If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Always Work Writer
I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Market Mass Really Writer
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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Character Once Tell Write
When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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Day Do Gonna Page Start Two Write
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
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
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Circus Dog Like Politician Talk
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Nerve One Pretend
I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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Bright Consolation Novel People Sophisticated What Write

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