My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
ALAN FURSTOne is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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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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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I’m a genre writer.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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 read very little contemporary anything.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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