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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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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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 basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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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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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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