I read very little contemporary anything.
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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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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’m not really a mass market writer.
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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 expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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