I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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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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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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 expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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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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