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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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I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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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I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.
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I'm not really a mass market writer.
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If you're a writer, you're always working.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
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I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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