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After years of working on books, I eventually took a more business-oriented job, for the same sorts of reasons that most people take most new jobs: fancier title, higher pay, opportunities for advancement.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Advancement After Books Eventually Higher Job Jobs More Most New New Jobs Opportunities Pay People Reasons Same Sort Take Title Took Working Years

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Sometimes, I had very little - if any - idea for whom I was really working: at the end of the day, who reaped the profits? Was it a privately controlled German foundation or a global array of stockholders? A middle-class guy on the Upper West Side or Rupert Murdoch? Were we pursuing mere profit, or self-perpetuation, or something bigger?

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Any Array Bigger Controlled Day End End Of The Day Foundation German Global Guy Had Idea Little Mere Middle-Class Privately Profit Profits Pursuing Really Side Something Sometimes Upper Very Were West West Side Who Whom Working

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As a book editor, you need to pitch every one of your books again and again, dozens of times, for months on end. From a quick conversation with your boss or a letter that'll be read by just one person, to a five-minute speech in front of 50 colleagues or cover copy that'll be in front of millions of eyes.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Again Book Books Boss Colleagues Conversation Copy Cover Dozens Editor End Every Eyes Front Just Just One Letter Millions Months Need Person Pitch Quick Read Speech Times You Your

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Everyone has secrets, and I think some people flee from home - far from home - to try to keep those secrets.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Everyone Far Flee Home Keep People Secrets Some Some People Think Those Try I Think

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Expats are a self-selecting group of outgoing, confident people - if you're not those things, you probably don't choose this adventure - and the lifestyle is very conducive to making fast, close friends.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Adventure Choose Close Close Friends Conducive Confident Fast Friends Group Lifestyle Making Outgoing People Things Those Very You

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We all live in a universe in which we're either asked to or are forced to accept certain premises about our employment without having the opportunity to verify them.

~Chris Pavone

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In most espionage novels, the characters risk their lives trying to save somebody or while protecting a nation from some threat. In 'The Travelers,' that's not what's going on. I used espionage as a device to heighten the characters' personal dramas.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Characters Device Dramas Espionage Going Lives Most Nation Novels Personal Protecting Risk Save Some Somebody Threat Travelers Trying Used While

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I try to construct each of my novels around one central theme - core tensions shared by the characters.

~Chris Pavone

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In 'The Travelers,' everyone is defined by his or her relationship to work. I put each character on a different rung of the ladder: from the lowliest assistant to a powerful man in the world of media.

~Chris Pavone

Topics: Assistant Character Defined Different Each Everyone Her His Ladder Man Media Powerful Powerful Man Put Relationship Rung Travelers Work World

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If you can't figure out how to make the beginning of your book compelling, you're probably not writing a compelling book.

~Chris Pavone

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 23rd, 1968

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