I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
ALAN FURSTI don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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’m a genre writer.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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 invented the historical spy novel.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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