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.
ALAN FURSTI’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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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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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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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’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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’m a genre writer.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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