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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.

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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
ALAN FURST

Bright Consolation Novel People Sophisticated What Write
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’m a genre writer.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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