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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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’m a genre writer.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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