The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
ALAN FURSTAnd, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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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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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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