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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.

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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Market Mass Really Writer
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Nerve One Pretend
Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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Die Love Today Tomorrow
I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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Basically Country Side Upper West Writer
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
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
I’m a genre writer.
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Genre Writer
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Better Book Get Hope Lot Write
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
You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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Accommodation Crucial Heroic Make Situation
Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Good People Spend Time
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
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Circus Dog Like Politician Talk
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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Character Once Tell 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 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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