I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
ALAN FURSTOn 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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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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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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 don’t spend their time being good.
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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 read very little contemporary anything.
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