It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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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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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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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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 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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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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