Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
ALAN FURSTThe printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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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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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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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