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There can be no better prize for a writer than one awarded by an international book fair.

~Antonio Munoz Molina

Topics: Awarded Better Book Fair International Prize Than Writer

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It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

~Antony Beevor

Topics: Afterwards Book Each Four Individual Long Long Time Me Research Stay Stories Takes Three Time Write Years You

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I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.

~Antony Beevor

Topics: Book Both Enjoy Experience Just Myself People Reading Scholarly Sort Time Would Write

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I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.

~Antony Beevor

Topics: Any Before Believe Book Both Expect Luck May Out Passionately Pessimism Proved Reviewers Sales Then Worst Wrong I Believe

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So, yes, 'Codename Baboushka' is all-action and over-the-top, at least by my standards. But it also has a complex, multifaceted protagonist, a deep mystery at its core, and a kind of humanity that, through all the bullets and high-kicks, is really the soul of the book.

~Antony Johnston

Topics: Also Book Bullets Complex Core Deep Humanity Kind Least Multifaceted Mystery Over-The-Top Protagonist Really Soul Standards Through Yes

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'Codename Baboushka' is an action-packed modern pulp spy thriller, in the sort of British tradition of 'Modesty Blaise', New Avengers and of course James Bond. It's a book about Contessa Annika Malikova, the last of a noble Russian line and an enigmatic, mysterious figure in New York high society.

~Antony Johnston

Topics: About Avengers Bond Book British Course Enigmatic Figure High James James Bond Last Line Modern Modesty Mysterious New New York Noble Pulp Russian Society Sort Spy Thriller Tradition York

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'Modesty Blaise' is not well known in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, she's an institution - especially for a comic book reader of a certain age. She's a wonderful creation, and her strip ran in newspapers for a long time. So whenever female spies come to mind for us, they think of 'Modesty Blaise'.

~Antony Johnston

Topics: Age Book Certain Certain Age Come Comic Comic Book Creation Female Her Institution Kingdom Known Long Long Time Mind Modesty Newspapers Ran Reader She Spies States Strip Think Time United United Kingdom United States Us Well Well Known Whenever Wonderful

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When someone says 'comic book movies', what they inevitably mean is a summer superhero blockbuster, with heavily-muscled and tightly-gluted men (plus the occasional token woman) in tight-fitting costumes punching the living daylights out of one another for two hours.

~Antony Johnston

Topics: Another Blockbuster Book Comic Comic Book Costumes Hours Inevitably Living Mean Men Movies Occasional Out Plus Punching Says Someone Summer Superhero Token Two Woman

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If you do approach a comics publisher, make sure it's one that publishes the kind of book you want to make. Don't take your literary fiction to Marvel or DC; don't pitch your Spider-Man epic to Image.

~Antony Johnston

Topics: Approach Book Comics Epic Fiction Image Kind Literary Literary Fiction Make Marvel Pitch Publisher Spider-Man Sure Take Want You Your Dc

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Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy.

~Antony Sher

Topics: Book Come Easy Every Know Like Paint Painting Play Project Struggle Will Write I Write

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