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James Bond was an early favourite, although I didn't understand much of it. I read the Bible a lot, too. You might say that this was my favourite, since I seemed to read it so often.

I prefer to write books for children instead of reading them. But I do strongly believe in childhood and in respecting childhood innocence. I don't like books for children that deal with adult themes.

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I used to play quite a good lead guitar, R&B style. Clapton and BB King are heroes.

My parents had never been to Germany. But I knew what I didn't want to write about, and I didn't want to write about Edinburgh. A lot of writers find Edinburgh fascinating, but I never did. As a matter of...

There's a great tradition among the English of writing about Berlin. It's kind of a state of mind, almost. That even translates in terms of music. A lot of people go to Berlin with the idea that it's a state...

I don't think any of us know how we would react until we were put in a situation where we have to do something bad or do something good. I think I'd like to believe I'd act like a decent...

History asks us to imagine ourselves in a period, but it's a very different situation when you're in that period and faced with those situations.

I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.

The mark of a writer is to make a story as likely as possible, and I've done my best to deliver authentic atmosphere.

A lot of crime writing suffers from treading water. I feel an obligation to move the character on and not repeat myself. I try to fit him into a different period and a different agenda. That way, you learn slightly...

Being British, we tend to think of ourselves as America's best friend. And as your best friend, that gives us a little bit of license to point out things that could have been handled better.

It's not easy being the world's policeman. No one thanks you for it.

When I feel I'm repeating myself, I'll probably pack it in.

I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch.

The most interesting legal philosophy is German, so naturally I went to Germany, particularly to Berlin, quite a bit.

The fascination for me writing about crime in Berlin was the idea that there was this much bigger crime taking place in the background, a fantastically epochal moment in history which is just going on. That just sort of makes...

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.

There's something weird about the Scots. We are a troubled, slightly tortured race - the sense of the respectable outward character and, inside, the turmoil of something darker.

After a while, you get tired of being the official Scot and defending everything Scottish.

I think John le Carre is, at 77, the greatest living writer alive. He is a master craftsman.

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