I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
ALAN FURSTthe fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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I don’t just want my books to be about the ’30s and ’40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as ’40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
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I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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On the Greek frontier, one wasn’t sure what came next. So, don’t trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
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