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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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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 fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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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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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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