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Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people... →
If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
I invented the historical spy novel.
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... →
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are... →
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
I don't inflict horrors on readers.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
I read very little contemporary anything.
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
I'm not really a mass market writer.
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