I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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 write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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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I’m a genre writer.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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