If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
ALAN FURSTI 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.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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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 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 expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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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