My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
ALAN FURSTWherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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 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 grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I’m a genre writer.
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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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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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