And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURSTI don’t inflict horrors on readers.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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