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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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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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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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I’m a genre writer.
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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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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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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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