I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
ALAN FURSTOn the Greek frontier, one wasn’t sure what came next. So, don’t trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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 grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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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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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 best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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 basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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