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 FURSTthe fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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 don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I’m a genre writer.
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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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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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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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