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

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I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

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

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I'm not really a mass market writer.

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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

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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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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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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.

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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

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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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I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.

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I don't inflict horrors on readers.

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Live today, for tomorrow we die.

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I read very little contemporary anything.

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I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

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

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The best Paris I know now is in my head.

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