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Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and...

Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.

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If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.

If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do...

I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.

I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.

I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.

I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until...

My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me.

I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.

I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create.

Yes, I'm a reasonably good self-taught historian of the 1930s and '40s. I've never wanted to write about another time or place. I wouldn't know what to say about contemporary society.

I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.

For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.

When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.

Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that?

I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be.

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.

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