The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
ALAN FURST
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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 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 write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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