I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
ALAN FURSTI don’t inflict horrors on readers.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish 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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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