Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
ALAN FURSTIf you’re a writer, you’re always working.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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 don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I’m a genre writer.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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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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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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