Good people don’t spend their time being good.
ALAN FURSTI read very little contemporary anything.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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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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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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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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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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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 invented the historical spy novel.
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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 write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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