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I have a temper, and it can flare from time to time, but as I've gotten older and more experienced, I think I use it in a controlled way. Oftentimes, I'm acting. ”

Clearly, a large number of people who shouldn't have firearms actually apply through the process and obtain firearms. ”

I have always thought if you are going to make a film, it's much better to have an original script that will play to film's strengths. ”

There is a disconnect between the film Bond and the literary Bond which is their contemporaneity. I don't suffer from that. ”

I don't think they'll ever make a retro Bond. ”

I can bore for England on the subject of James Bond. But I knew I couldn't do it frivolously; I had to take it very seriously, however much fun I was having. And I had to make myself, you know, absolutely steeped in Bond and in Fleming and that world. ”

I have this lock of hair that keeps falling across my forehead. It drives me mad. ”

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other. ”

As a novelist, where do you go to tap into memories, and impressions, and sensations? It's usually, in my experience, your early life, before you started thinking of yourself as a writer, because somehow those experiences are unadulterated. ”

When you experience bereavement at a youngish age, you suddenly realise that life is unjust and unfair, that bad things will happen, and you have to take that on board. ”