I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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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I’m a genre writer.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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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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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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