the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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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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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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