The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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I’m a genre writer.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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 read very little contemporary anything.
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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 invented the historical spy novel.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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