You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
ALAN FURSTAnd, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I’m a genre writer.
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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 invented the historical spy novel.
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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.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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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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