Live today, for tomorrow we die.
ALAN FURSTLive today, for tomorrow we die.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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