The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
ALAN FURSTOnce you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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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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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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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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