I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
ALAN FURST
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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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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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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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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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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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