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I invented the historical spy novel.

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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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Crank Currency Paper Press Printing Ream State Treasure
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
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
Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Good People Spend Time
I’m a genre writer.
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Genre Writer
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
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Circus Dog Like Politician Talk
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
I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Market Mass Really Writer
You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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Accommodation Crucial Heroic Make Situation
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
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 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
I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Horror Inflict Reader

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