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Alan Furst Quotes

American - Author | February 20, 1941 -

I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.

Life Writing Rest My Life Uncle

People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it.

People Feel Know Accuracy Read

The best Paris I know now is in my head.

Best Paris Know Now Head

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.

Past Think Want Conservative Been

I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

Jewish Side West Writer West Side

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

You Make Heroic Situations Crucial

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

Hope Better You Write Get Books

I invented the historical spy novel.

Spy Historical Novel Invented

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.

Brain Never Forget You Person Forget

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

History Write Everything Engine Use

If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

Live You Paris Should Maybe

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

Reality You Want Get Books Somebody

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