One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
ALAN FURSTThe printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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 don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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