I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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 expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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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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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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