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.
ALAN FURSTWhether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I’m a genre writer.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish 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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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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