I don’t regard James Bond precisely as a hero, but at least he does get on and do his duty, in an extremely corny way.
Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.
That James Bond movie? The one where Bond skis off a cliff, shucks his skis, and parachutes to the ground? That’s for me. That’s what I want to be. A stuntman in a Bond movie.
Sometimes it irks when people come up in the street and say, ‘Oh I’m a huge James Bond fan’ – when you obviously want them to be a fan of your work in particular.
When you’re a young man, a young boy, all you want to be is that action hero; you want to be the James Bond, and I got to do that for a bit, and that was great.
My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.
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