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- Good Thing
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Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
- History
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If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.
- Love
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If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel.
- History
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I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.
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I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
- Five
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I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.
- Myself
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I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.
- Books
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I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.
- Never
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I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create.
- Good
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Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society.
- Beginning
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I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.
- Music
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For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
- Darkness
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Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.
- Life
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When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.
- Live
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