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Wednesday's Quote of the Day

10:13 UK time, Wednesday, 28 May 2008

"It's like asking someone who normally writes complex symphonic music to write a three-minute pop song" - Sebastian Faulks on spinning the latest 007 yarn.

faulks.gifThe man who has taken on Ian Fleming's mantle to pen Devil May Care - featuring a chap by the name of J Bond - does not appear to wear it lightly. Faulks, best-known for his sweeping wartime epic Birdsong, says he eventually relented to the repeated requests to write a Bond book and found it a challenge to write in the very different style of the former hack. Short sentences. Lots of full-stops. Job done.

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