I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.