It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
ALAN FURSTYou can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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 expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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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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I’m a genre writer.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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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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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