- Nov 07, 2020
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- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
- Makeup
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace every afternoon, and when she watched Liberace, she'd get dressed up and put on makeup because I think she thought if she could see Liberace, Liberace could see her.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.
- Cold War
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- Nov 07, 2020
Le Carre's voice - patrician, cold, brilliant and amused - was perfect for the wilderness-of-mirrors undertow of the Cold War, and George Smiley is the all-time harassed bureaucrat of spy fiction.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.
- City
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.
- Mean
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020