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.
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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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’m not really a mass market writer.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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I’m a genre writer.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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