The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
ALAN FURSTthe fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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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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 really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I’m a genre writer.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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