The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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 write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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 don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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