One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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 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 expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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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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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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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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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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