I’m not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURSTThe best Paris I know now is in my head.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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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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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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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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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