Quotes About Author

I just thought Spurs were a challenge that I had to take on.

I know that Spurs are a team who like to play offensive football.

We've always had a philosophy at Spurs to play out from the back, to play with style, to play out from the back and that's the way I've always been brought up and to come into the first team is no different.

I've got Spurs gear on - that's all I care about.

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.

What I find interesting about Captain Action is that he is more an adventurer and spy than he is a soldier.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

I invented the historical spy novel.

On 'The Spy Who Dumped Me,' it wasn't fear as much as it was feeling overwhelmed because there were so many moving parts. But I felt that I knew what I was doing. And on a movie like this, there's so much preparation that goes into it that by the time you were there, you had done months of planning.

'XIII' is a spy show. I think the comic book is a little too similar to 'The Bourne Identity.' I tried to take it away from that. I believe there was, many years ago, before the Bourne movies, a lawsuit that made it so they couldn't be published in English.

I think of 'Liar & Spy' as completely different and actually not at all like a 'When You Reach Me'-type story. I feel like 'Liar & Spy' has a much quieter, more emotional revelation.

The world has changed, the CIA is having to change, and again, the challenge for someone like me as a spy novelist is to write realistically about where they're actually going.

I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form of a spy novel, but it leads readers into a world of Kafkaesque irrationality.

I always wanted to play characters, and that was definitely one - a Russian spy.

People on 'The Incredibles' would ask me if I listened to a lot of spy scores, but no, I don't.

For a book to function... it has to be a functioning reality. The character has to be real, and I imagine that's exactly what happens for a spy who is in deep cover.

Pirlo and Tevez are extraordinary players and any squad would miss them.

City has helped me and Chelsea has helped me to be in the national squad.

It is a privilege to be part of this Chelsea squad and the Chelsea family, at one of the most historic clubs in the Premier League.

I'm so grateful to Ferguson. I think he's the best there's ever been, especially his squad management skills.

The most important thing for me is being part of a successful England squad and being as big a part of it as I can.

I try and relate my writing to something I know about, and I had a primary experience of being in a competitive, military environment and being part of a squadron.

I make no excuses. Stefan Struve was the man that night. He earned his win fair and square.

This whole business feels kind of intense, like a bad fit. Round peg, square hole. But whatever, I'll take it.