And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURSTLive today, for tomorrow we die.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I’m a genre writer.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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 don’t spend their time being good.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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