I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
ALAN FURSTOne is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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I’m a genre writer.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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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