You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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 read very little contemporary anything.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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 expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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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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