You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
ALAN FURSTLive today, for tomorrow we die.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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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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