The rewrite is very satisfying." "The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century." "Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books the women characters often rather decorative." "We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary." "When I'm writing a woman character, I don't think, 'What would a woman do?' I just think, 'What would this character do in this situation?'" "With hindsight, we see that the Soviet Union never had a chance of world domination, but we didn't know that then." "World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil.
The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. There is nothing wry or amused about James Bond." "Most of my stories have some basis in fact." "Movies have influenced all writers, not just thriller writers." "My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era." "The CIA's research program is described in a book called The Search for the Manchurian Candidate." "The research is the easiest. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation." "It was the most romantic plane ever made." "James Bond is quite serious about his drinks and clothing and cigarettes and food and all that sort of thing. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character.
I want readers to feel: OK, this probably didn't happen, but it might have." "I use a professional researcher in New York who does all the legwork, all that stuff which would take me days and weeks of calling, waiting for people to call back." "In my books, women often solve the problem. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult." "I enjoy learning technical details." "I like to create imaginary characters and events around a real historical situation. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit." "Be a perfectionist." "Culture clash is terrific drama." "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." "I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. "A very good editor is almost a collaborator." "An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly.
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