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If you're a writer, you're always working.
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
The best Paris I know now is in my head.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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... →