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When I Wrote The First [bond Novel] In 1953, I Wanted Bond To Be An Extremely Dull, Uninteresting Man To Whom Things Happened... When I Was Casting Around For A Name For My Protagonist I Thought By God, [james Bond] Is The Dullest Name I Ever Heard.

I Was Just On The Edge Of Getting Married, And I Was Frenzied At The Prospect Of This Great Step In My Life After Having Been A Bachelor For So Long. And I Really Wanted To Take My Mind Off Of The Agony, And So I Decided To Sit Down And Write A Book.

The Conventional Parabola--sentiment, The Touch Of The Hand, The Kiss, The Passionate Kiss, The Feel Of The Body, The Climax In The Bed, Then More Bed, Then Less Bed, Then The Boredom, The Tears And The Final Bitterness--was To Him Shameful And Hypocritical.

Before A Man's Forty, Girls Cost Nothing. After That You Have To Pay Money, Or Tell A Story. Of The Two, It's The Story That Hurts Most. Anyway I'm Not Forty Yet.

Bond Didn't Defend The Practice. He Simply Maintained That The More Effort And Ingenuity You Put Into Gambling, The More You Took Out.