I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
ALAN FURSTIt takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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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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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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