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

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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
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
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
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 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
I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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Basically Country Side Upper West Writer
If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Always Work Writer
The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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Best Country Hed Know
Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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Die Love Today Tomorrow
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
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Circus Dog Like Politician Talk
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Nerve One Pretend
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
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Better Book Get Hope Lot Write
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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