One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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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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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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I’m a genre writer.
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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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