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"I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have."
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"One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable."
"In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa."
"There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games."
"Dreaming or awake, we perceive only events that have meaning to us."
"I come to Fashion Week events in New York City twice a year."
"Big shows are more like events and small shows are more like traditional gigs."
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"James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond."
"In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation."
"I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult."
"My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era."
"For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words."
"An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit."
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