Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
ALAN FURSTI read very little contemporary anything.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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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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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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’m a genre writer.
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