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Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes.

You should have died when I killed you.

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.

Writing is like walking in a deserted street. Out of the dust in the street you make a mud pie.

Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.

History keeps her secrets longer than most of us. But she has one secret that I will reveal to you tonight in the greatest confidence. Sometimes there are no winners at all. And sometimes nobody needs to lose.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

I think that where I've watched a movie go wrong, it's usually because the dread committee has been interfering with it.

The Cold War was over long before it was officially declared dead.

I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.

There are some subjects that can only be tackled in fiction.

If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level.

I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others.

The longing we have to communicate cleanly and directly with people is always obstructed by qualifications and often with concern about how our messages will be received.

Remember Graham Green's dictum that childhood is the bank balance of the writer? I think that all writers feel alienated. Most of us go back to an alienated childhood in some way or another. I know that I do.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.

I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention.

In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public perception of why the war was being fought. In every crisis, the issues have been far more complex than the public has been allowed to know.

Every writer knows he is spurious; every fiction writer would rather be credible than authentic.

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