Good people don’t spend their time being good.
ALAN FURSTGood 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.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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 expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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