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 FURSTThe printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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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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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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I’m a genre writer.
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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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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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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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