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Top 40 Alan Furst Quotes (2024 Update)

Alan Furst Quote: “Live today, for tomorrow we die.”
Alan Furst Quote: “Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying.”
Alan Furst Quote: “I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.”
Alan Furst Quote: “I invented the historical spy novel.”
Alan Furst Quote: “The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.”
Alan Furst Quote: “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.”
Alan Furst Quote: “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 Quote: “This land, like so much of the French countryside, was a painting, but Mercier felt his heart touched with melancholy and realized, not for the first time, that beautiful places were hard on lonely people.”
Alan Furst Quote: “When you’re looking for somebody and you find yourself in contact with people you’ve never met, you are getting close.”
Alan Furst Quote: “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.”
Alan Furst Quote: “You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.”
Alan Furst Quote: “If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.”
Alan Furst Quote: “Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.”
Alan Furst Quote: “But the world doesn’t run on logic, it runs on the seven deadly sins and the weather. – Alan Furst; Red Gold.”
Alan Furst Quote: “If you’re a writer, you’re always working.”
Alan Furst Quote: “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 Quote: “One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.”
Alan Furst Quote: “When you are done living for yourself, only then do you learn that living for others is the privilege,’ Renata.”
Alan Furst Quote: “I read very little contemporary anything.”
Alan Furst Quote: “I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.”
Alan Furst Quote: “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 Quote: “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 Quote: “My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.”
Alan Furst Quote: “You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.”
Alan Furst Quote: “A certain type – he knew them all too well from years of experience as a detective, he knew how they acted, how they spoke, how their minds worked. These were people who would do anything to win at what they saw as the game of life, who had no allegiance to anyone or anything beyond themselves, who were gifted liars, who could scheme their way into almost anyone’s confidence, then betray them without hesitation.”
Alan Furst Quote: “The sun?” Goldman said in an unguarded moment. “I hear they’ve shot it.”
Alan Furst Quote: “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 Quote: “I don’t inflict horrors on readers.”
Alan Furst Quote: “The best Paris I know now is in my head.”
Alan Furst Quote: “I’m not really a mass market writer.”
Alan Furst Quote: “I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.”
Alan Furst Quote: “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.”
Alan Furst Quote: “We are afflicted with a darkness of the soul and fall in love with our pain.”
Alan Furst Quote: “He was, in military life, a sergeant. Casson had already guessed that by the time he got around to mentioning it. A sergeant: good at getting things done. By the book so long as it worked. By being crooked if that’s what it took.”
Alan Furst Quote: “When a diplomat says ‘yes’ he means ‘maybe.’ When a diplomat says ‘maybe’ he means ‘no.’ But if a diplomat says ‘no’ he’s no diplomat.”
Alan Furst Quote: “Earlier, during a lull in business, Morath had laid out the details of Kolovitzky’s letter and the two of them had discussed strategy, coming up with the plan that couldn’t go wrong and what to do once it did. In.”
Alan Furst Quote: “With time, he developed the instincts of a priest: evil existed; the task was to work productively within its confines.”
Alan Furst Quote: “A moment comes, and if you wish to look at yourself as human, you must take some kind of action. Otherwise, you can read the newspapers and congratulate yourself on your good fortune.”
Alan Furst Quote: “The lawyer Thien, when Morath was ushered into his office by a junior member of the staff, turned out to be an ancient bag of bones held upright only by means of a stiff, iron-coloured suit.”
Alan Furst Quote: “Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read.”
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