Alan Furst Quotes

• Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said

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  Dog, Believe, Talking

  Alan Furst (2008). “Dark Star: A Novel”, p.35, Random House

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• You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

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  Heroic, Accommodations, Situation

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• If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

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  Paris, Should, Ifs

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• Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

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  Flower, Know How, Knows

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• The best Paris I know now is in my head.

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  Paris, Knows

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• Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.

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  Escritura, carácter

  "Alan Furst travels through the spy-ridden 'Shadows' of Europe" by Adam Dunn, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2001.

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• If you're a writer, you're always working.

  Alan Furst

  Always Working, Ifs

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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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  Heart, Paris, You Like It

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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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  Office, Brain, Want

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• Live today, for tomorrow we die.

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  Live For Today, Today, Tomorrow

  Alan Furst (2008). “Night Soldiers: A Novel”, p.105, Random House

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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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  Book, Past, Thinking

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• La gente buena no pasa el tiempo siendo buena. La gente buena quiere pasar el tiempo cortando el césped y jugando con el perro. Pero la gente mala pasa todo su tiempo siendo mala. Es en lo único que piensan.

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  Dog, Thinking, People

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• One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

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  Nervios

  Alan Furst (2007). “The World at Night: A Novel”, p.9, Random House

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• I invented the historical spy novel.

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  Historical, Spy, Novel

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• It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

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  Libro, Escritura, Dos

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• I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

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  Book, Europe, People

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• I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.

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  Reading, Degrees, Eric

  "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.

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• Las imprentas de los tesoros públicos producían resmas de papel moneda, mostrando sabios tipos y mártires dichosos, mientras los banqueros lloraban y los campesinos morían de hambre.

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  Wise, Bankers, Paper

  Alan Furst (2008). “Night Soldiers: A Novel”, p.7, Random House

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• And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, 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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  Army, Europe, Greek

  Alan Furst (2010). “Spies of the Balkans: A Novel”, p.4, Random House

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• I don't inflict horrors on readers.

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  Horror, Reader

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• You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.

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  Book, Writing, Get Better

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• I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

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  Writing, Plot, Use

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• I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

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  West, Sides, West Side

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• I read very little contemporary anything.

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  Littles, Contemporary

  "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.

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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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  Book, Reality, Want

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