Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
ALAN FURSTShowing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
ALAN FURSTI have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
ALAN FURSTI expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
ALAN FURSTI write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
ALAN FURSTI 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.
ALAN FURSTI read very little contemporary anything.
ALAN FURSTAnd, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURSTYou can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
ALAN FURSTOnce you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
ALAN FURSTI’m a genre writer.
ALAN FURSTI’m not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURSTWhether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
ALAN FURSTI’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
ALAN FURSTOne is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
ALAN FURSTThe printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
ALAN FURSTIf you’re a writer, you’re always working.
ALAN FURST