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I invented the historical spy novel.

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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Always Work Writer
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
I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Horror Inflict Reader
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
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
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
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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Armies Country Much Occupy
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’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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Basically Country Side Upper West 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
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
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Better Book Get Hope Lot Write
Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Good People Spend Time
Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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Die Love Today Tomorrow
You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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Accommodation Crucial Heroic Make Situation

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