When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
ALAN FURSTYou can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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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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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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