the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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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I invented the historical spy novel.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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 don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I’m a genre writer.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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 read very little contemporary anything.
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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 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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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish 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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