And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURSTI grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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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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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I’m a genre writer.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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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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