I’m a genre writer.
ALAN FURSTLive today, for tomorrow we die.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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 expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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