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I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches.
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My Life in CIA is the first time that I've ever written a story in my own name.
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It has always been something I could do, and it may seem odd that in my case I seem to create an interesting narrative and frustrate the reader's opportunities to follow it at every step.
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I think situations are more important than plot and character.
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Well, I had this little notion - I started writing when I was eleven, writing poetry. I was passionately addicted to it; it was my great refuge through adolescence.
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I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
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My mother could never understand why I didn't write a thriller, which I've finally done.
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And then, when I left Princeton in the middle of my sophomore year, I went into the navy.
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My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
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When Niki and I moved to Paris, there was also the challenge of Paris, an extremely daunting city.
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My next project is to get back to that. Actually, to learn how to write poetry. I'm not kidding.
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Music had been my first love among the arts, and I was fascinated by it, as I still am.
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