If You Can Live In Paris, Maybe

And, With Much Of Europe Occupied By Nazi Germany, And Mussolini's Armies In Albania, On The Greek Frontier, One Wasn't Sure What Came Next. So, Don't Trust The Telephone. Or The Newspapers. Or The Radio. Or Tomorrow.

Once You Have Your Characters, They Tell You What To Write, You Don't Tell Them.

You Can't Make Accommodations In Crucial Situations And Be Heroic.

It Takes Me Three Months Of Research And Nine Months Of Work To Produce A Book. When I Start Writing, I Do Two Pages A Day; If I'm Gonna Do 320, That's 160 Days.

I Invented The Historical Spy Novel.