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.
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic. - Alan Furst
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
- Alan Furst
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what… - Alan Furst
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what…
Live today, for tomorrow we die. - Alan Furst
Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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 al… - 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 al…
If you can live in Paris, maybe you should. - Alan Furst
If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended. - Alan Furst
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying - Alan Furst
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them. - Alan Furst
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
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 t… - Alan Furst
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 t…
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