My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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 read very little contemporary anything.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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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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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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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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 don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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