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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Authorities
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- Nov 07, 2020
The National Surveillance State doesn't want anyone to be able to communicate without the authorities being able to monitor that communication.
- Disease
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- Nov 07, 2020
A heart beset by coronary disease will begin to recruit secondary arteries to carry oxygenated blood.
- Government Officials
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I wrote my eighth thriller, 'Inside Out,' in 2009, the villains were a group of CIA and other government officials who colluded to destroy a series of tapes depicting Americans torturing war-on-terror prisoners.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isn't really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can be Clarence Darrow, but anyone who wants to be at least competent at argument can do it.
- Argument
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- Nov 07, 2020
Good argument is intended to persuade another.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Psychologically, it's always more pleasurable to blame others for our problems than it is to acknowledge our own responsibility.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anger, and the self-righteousness that is both the cause and consequence of anger, tends to be easier on the psyche than personal responsibility.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two most important things to do for self-defense are not to take a martial arts class or get a gun, but to think like the opposition and know where you're most at risk.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between being a victim and a survivor is often a low level of situational awareness. You can't be a super-spy, watchful and paranoid every day. But I am more watchful than the average American.
- Mission
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- Nov 07, 2020
The post office actually achieves its mission. I wish we could say the same of the CIA.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
- Essence
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- Nov 07, 2020
The job of the screenplay is to identify and extract the essence of the story from the novel and reconfigure it for the screen, maintaining its essence in a different vehicle.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Jet Li, but he looks very Chinese, and his English is Chinese-accented. He wouldn't have been the right guy to play a Japanese-American.
- Favorite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
- Kid
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in college, I became interested in various aspects of foreign policy and international relations. Even as a kid, I was interested in what I call, loosely speaking, forbidden knowledge.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thumb to write the kinds of stories you love to read.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
- Ideology
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- Nov 07, 2020
Publishing for me is a business, not an ideology.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
- High-End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to position my books as premium-priced versions on the reasonably-priced scale, if that makes sense, to find a sweet spot between the high-end of what my brand can support and the low end that results in impulse purchases and maximum sales volume.
- Legacy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Publishing, legacy or indie, is a vehicle, and you can't opine about whether someone has chosen the right vehicle if you don't know where she intends to drive it.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a long-standing interest in what I like to think of as 'forbidden knowledge:' methods of unarmed killing, lock picking, breaking and entry, spy stuff, and other things that the government wants only a few select individuals to know.
- Inspired
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
- Corruption
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure why I'm so drawn to heroes who do bad things and to villains who think they're the good guys, but I do find that moral ambiguity and conflict makes for great characters.
- Matters
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I think of a story, somehow it just always seems to come out involving spooks and spies and government skullduggery.
- Inside
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the outside, the CIA seems pretty exotic, but from the inside, it's a big, bureaucratic place. Think 'post office with spies.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020