The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
ALAN FURSTYou can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I’m a genre writer.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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