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 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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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 invented the historical spy novel.
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