Good people don’t spend their time being good.
ALAN FURSTI’m a genre writer.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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 read very little contemporary anything.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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I’m a genre writer.
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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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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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I invented the historical spy novel.
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