It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
ALAN FURSTI read very little contemporary anything.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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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 expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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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 printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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