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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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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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 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.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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 invented the historical spy novel.
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I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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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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