If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
ALAN FURSTI’m not really a mass market writer.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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 don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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