Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
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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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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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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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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’m not really a mass market writer.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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I invented the historical spy novel.
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