When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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 grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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I’m a genre writer.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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 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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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