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When I was younger I used to get my best writing done at night, but now it has to be during the day. I usually finish work at half past seven, then go back to the house to open a...

To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.

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I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed - a salute was more like a friendly wave.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have.

I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.

I can't envisage stopping writing.

I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.

If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.

I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary...

I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

I was planning to stay in the Army all my life, but I ended up being posted to a training camp in Wales and was so bored there, I wrote a novel.

Alpacas are very endearing, and they all have very different personalities.

When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.

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