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 expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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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 inflict horrors on readers.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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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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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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