I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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’m a genre writer.
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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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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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 don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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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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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I invented the historical spy novel.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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