My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
ALAN FURSTI expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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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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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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