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 don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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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 invented the historical spy novel.
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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 inflict horrors on readers.
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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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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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