Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
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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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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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