If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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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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 invented the historical spy novel.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish 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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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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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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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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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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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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I don’t just want my books to be about the ’30s and ’40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as ’40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
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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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