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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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Bright Consolation Novel People Sophisticated What Write
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Nerve One Pretend
I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Horror Inflict Reader
Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Good People Spend Time
I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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Anything Contemporary Little Read
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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Armies Country Much Occupy
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Banker Blissful Kind Martyrs Peasant Show Starve Wept While Wise
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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Drive Engine Everything History Plot Really Use Write
If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Always Work Writer
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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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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Came Country Frontier Newspaper Next Radio Telephone Tomorrow Trust
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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Character Once Tell Write

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