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.
ALAN FURSTGood 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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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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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’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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