Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
ALAN FURSTI don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish 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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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 read very little contemporary anything.
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I’m a genre writer.
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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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I invented the historical spy novel.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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