I invented the historical spy novel.
ALAN FURSTShowing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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’m not really a mass market writer.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I’m a genre writer.
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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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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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Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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