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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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Best Country Hed Know
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
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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Country Flower God Know Plant Say Translate
When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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Day Do Gonna Page Start Two Write
I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Horror Inflict Reader
I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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Basically Country Side Upper West Writer
Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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Die Love Today Tomorrow
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
Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Good People Spend Time
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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Crank Currency Paper Press Printing Ream State Treasure
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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Book Forty Just Raed Thirty Want Written
I read very little contemporary anything.
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Anything Contemporary Little Read
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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Beat Began Civilization Country End Heart Western
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
the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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Actual Believe Exist Fact Interest Person Sane Uncommonly
I invented the historical spy novel.
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Historical Invent Novel Spy
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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Country Except Feeling Foreign Language Reader Been Some
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
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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All Abot Bad Dog Good Lawn Move People Play Spend Think Time
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Circus Dog Like Politician Talk
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Better Book Get Hope Lot Write
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Nerve One Pretend
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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Armies Country Much Occupy
I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Market Mass Really Writer
I’m a genre writer.
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Genre Writer
I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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Audience Book Expect Have Like Lot People Read
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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