You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
ALAN FURSTWhether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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’m a genre writer.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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 read very little contemporary anything.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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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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