the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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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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 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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I’m a genre writer.
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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 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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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 read very little contemporary anything.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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