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.
ALAN FURSTI expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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I’m a genre writer.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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’m not really a mass market 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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