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.
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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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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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