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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.

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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Good People Spend Time
the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Nerve One Pretend
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Circus Dog Like Politician Talk
I read very little contemporary anything.
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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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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
I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Market Mass Really Writer
If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Always Work Writer
I invented the historical spy novel.
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Historical Invent Novel Spy
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I’m a genre writer.
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Genre Writer
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
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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