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Alan Furst

Good people don't spend their time being good. 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.

— Alan Furst time

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

— Alan Furst live

Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.

— Alan Furst art

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

— Alan Furst best

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

— Alan Furst history

I invented the historical spy novel.

— Alan Furst novel

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.

— Alan Furst books

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.

— Alan Furst you

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

— Alan Furst hero

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

— Alan Furst character

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

— Alan Furst hope

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.

— Alan Furst books

I don't inflict horrors on readers.

— Alan Furst horror

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

— Alan Furst reading

I read very little contemporary anything.

— Alan Furst read

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

— Alan Furst people

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

— Alan Furst writer

I'm not really a mass market writer.

— Alan Furst writer

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

— Alan Furst work

My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.

— Alan Furst books

Good people dont spend their time being good. 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.

— Alan Furst time

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