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In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. 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. 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. The outline is the most fun. The first draft is the hardest, because every word of the outline has to be fleshed out. The rewrite is very satisfying.
The thriller is the most popular literary genre of the 20th century.
There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.
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. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
Idolatry is really not good for anyone. Not even the idols.
Kids love rabbits... they just like them.
To the timid soul, nothing is possible.
All of the sudden the audiences started getting younger and the spread of the attendance was really wide. I think it's as a result of the records selling more that they started following our careers.
Even if you're improvising, the fact that beforehand you know certain things will work helps you make those improvisations successful. It really helps to have a certain amount of knowledge about musical structure.
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Alan Cranston
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19 June, 1914
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31 December, 2000
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