The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
ALAN FURSTOn the Greek frontier, one wasn’t sure what came next. So, don’t trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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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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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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 grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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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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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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