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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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If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

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Live today, for tomorrow we die.

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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

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I read very little contemporary anything.

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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 don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

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The best Paris I know now is in my head.

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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

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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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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

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Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.

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I invented the historical spy novel.

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You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

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I don't inflict horrors on readers.

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If you're a writer, you're always working.

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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.

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