I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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 don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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I’m a genre writer.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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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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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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