I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
ALAN FURSTthe fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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I 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.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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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