It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
ALAN FURSTAnd, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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I’m a genre writer.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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