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I invented the historical spy novel.

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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
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 grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Market Mass Really 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
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
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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Country Flower God Know Plant Say Translate
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 expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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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
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Nerve One Pretend
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
Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Good People Spend Time
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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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Die Love Today Tomorrow
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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