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.
ALAN FURSTMy novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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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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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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 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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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 don’t spend their time being good.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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