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 FURSTYou can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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 have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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I’m a genre writer.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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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