I’m a genre writer.
ALAN FURSTI don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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 expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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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 don’t spend their time being good.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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