Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
ALAN FURSTOne is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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 write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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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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