I invented the historical spy novel.
ALAN FURSTI read very little contemporary anything.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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 write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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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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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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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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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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I’m a genre writer.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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