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- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nov 07, 2020
Be a perfectionist.
- Enjoy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy learning technical details.
- Culture
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Culture clash is terrific drama.
- Fact
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Most of my stories have some basis in fact.
- Editor
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A very good editor is almost a collaborator.
- Man
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There is no point in asking a man a question until you have established whether he has any reason to lie to you.
- CIA
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The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate.
- Doing
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An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.
- Know
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With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then.
- War
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
- Books
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Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.
- New
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I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back.
- Change
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In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond.
- Destiny
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For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.
- Fun
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The research is the easiest. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
- Like
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I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have.
- Great
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I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult.
- History
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World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
- Best
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Well, for people who want to write best sellers, the best advice I can give is to say that the novel has to engage the reader emotionally.
- Cathedrals
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I went and looked at one of these great cathedrals one day, and I was blown away by it. From there I became interested in how cathedrals were built, and from there I became interested in the society that built the medieval cathedral. It occurred to me at some point that the story of the building of a cathedral could be a great popular novel.
- Lot
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I read mostly fiction, a lot of 19th-century novels.
- Great
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I am very fond of Edith Wharton. She's quite high brow but also a great storyteller. My favorite is 'The House of Mirth.' I also like 'The Reef.'
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have quite a few different Bibles. Having rejected my parents' religion, I still think the King James Bible is the most important work of literature in English. None of us can help being influenced by it.
- Books
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great that in the German language I've sold almost 30 million books. Isn't that amazing?
- Captain
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I wanted to be some kind of captain of industry. Then I wanted to be in advertising, and then I wanted to be a newspaper reporter.
- Spare Time
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I started writing stories in my spare time.
- People
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One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
After a certain point, most people, including editors, will tell you everything you do is great.
- Next
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