When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to be an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened… when I was casting around for a name for my protagonist I thought by God, [James Bond] is the dullest name I ever heard.
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When I wrote the first [Bond novel] in 1953, I wanted Bond to
