Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
ALAN FURSTI read very little contemporary anything.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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’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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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 invented the historical spy novel.
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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’m a genre writer.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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 expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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