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The best Paris I know now is in my head.

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.

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

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

I invented the historical spy novel.

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.

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

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

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

I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

I read very little contemporary anything.

I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree...

I'm not really a mass market writer.

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

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

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

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.

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

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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