And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURSTI grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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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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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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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