"But this is a sad lapse, and I must confess that in one of my books, Goldfinger, three whole chapters were devoted to a single game of golf." This is great stuff
Probably my favourite thing Ian Fleming wrote was this essay on how he wrote the Bond novels, which is vile, revealing and full of genuinely good advice and observations
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Martin Concagh
There is no literary spy—and perhaps no literary character, full stop—more famous than James Bond, which should already be enough of an argument for any aspiring writer, but particularly any aspiri…
It speaks incredibly well to the Fleming estate that while they have (perfectly reasonably) made a lot of money out of James Bond, they haven’t mutilated the original books or tried to soft soap how vile Fleming clearly is in order to get even more money, I think.
