My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
ALAN FURSTYou write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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 expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I’m a genre writer.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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