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" As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money. "
Me
Financial
Finance
" 'High Concept' means a book or a film whose core idea can be stated in a single sentence, such as 'Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito are twins.' Or, 'Arnold is pregnant.' "
Twins
Film
Core
" I'd always been a great fan of George Orwell. "
George
Orwell
Been
" I feel very bad about getting things wrong. "
Feel
Bad
Wrong
" If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south. "
Understanding
People
City
" I hate to be categorized. "
Categorized
Hate
" I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer. "
Busy
Slow
Me
" I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is. "
Flat
Voice
American
" I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books. "
Just
Thought
Books
" I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about. "
You
Tell
Been
" I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans. "
Book
Poetry
Big
" Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare. "
Hero
Week
Know
" Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right. "
People
Right
Books
" Of course the biggest mafia in Russia has always been the government; in Soviet times, the Communist Party, and now a circle of former KGB and FSB. "
Party
Always
Circle
" The fact is that I loved being in England. "
England
Being
Fact
" The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia. "
Down
They Say
Say
" The great thing about being a writer is that you are always recreating yourself. "
You
Writer
Always
" Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man. "
Dangerous
Culture
World
" Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class. "
Back
California
Dress
" What's wonderful is to read the different translations - some done in 1600 and some in 1900 - of the same passage. It's fascinating to watch the same tale repeated in such a different way by two different centuries. "
Watch
Two
Way
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