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Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.

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I think bankers will always get away with whatever they can get away with.

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I mean, I'm in the business of storytelling, not message making.

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It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.

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Well, certainly I don't think that there are very many good writers who don't live without a sense of tension. If they haven't got one immediately available to them, then they usually manage to manufacture it in their private lives.

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More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature.

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But I think the real tension lies in the relationship between what you might call the pursuer and his quarry, whether it's the writer or the spy.

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Writers are two-home men - they want a place outside and a place within.

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I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean, most writers struggle. I hadn't struggled. I couldn't suddenly go down to the PEN Club and behave like a normal human being, because most of those guys were struggling to make a couple of thousand pounds a year.

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I write and walk and swim and drink.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: October 19th, 1931

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