If you interrupt the writing of fast narrative with too much introspection and self-criticism, you will be lucky if you write 500 words a day and you will be disgusted with them into the bargain. By following my formula, you write 2,000 words a day and you aren’t disgusted with them until the book is finished, which will be in about six weeks.

Never say 'no' to adventures.

Against the background of this luminous and sparkling stage Bond stood in the sunshine and felt his mission to be incongruous and remote and his dark profession an affront to his fellow actors.

Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.

It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

He was a secret agent, and still alive thanks to his exact attention to the detail of his profession.

And people with obsessions, reflected Bond, were blind to danger.