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.
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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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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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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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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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