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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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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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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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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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