Live today, for tomorrow we die.
ALAN FURSTI don’t inflict horrors on readers.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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’m not really a mass market writer.
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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I’m a genre writer.
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