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.
ALAN FURSTthe fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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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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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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