I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

I'm not really a mass market writer.