My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
ALAN FURSTIt takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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I read very little contemporary anything.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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