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.
ALAN FURSTI’m not really a mass market writer.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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 expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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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 basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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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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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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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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