Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
ALAN FURSTGood 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.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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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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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I’m a genre writer.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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