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Let me put it this way: I don't plan to retire. What would I do, become a brain surgeon? I mean, a brain surgeon can retire and write novels, but a novelist can't retire and do brain surgery - or at least he better not.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Become Better Brain Brain Surgery He Least Me Mean Novelist Novels Plan Put Retire Surgeon Surgery Way Would Write

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I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Basically Books Came Five Manuscript Night Soldiers Them Wrote

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

~Alan Furst

Topics: Accuracy Feel Know People Read

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Seattle's support system got me through those early, difficult years. It was a very funky, very friendly, very relaxed place that had it all for a writer.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Difficult Early Friendly Funky Got Had Me Place Relaxed Seattle Support System Those Through Very Writer Years

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The best Paris I know now is in my head.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Best Head Know Now Paris

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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.

~Alan Furst

Topics: About Been Books Conservative Had Just Narrative Novels Past Read Them Then Think Want Written I Think

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

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Topics: Crucial Heroic Make Situations You

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

~Alan Furst

Topics: Better Books Get Hope Lot Write You

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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.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Brain Censorship Could Forget Head Inside Never Never Forget Office Person Serious Stick Tell Things Very Want Would You Your

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

~Alan Furst

Topics: Drives Engine Everything History Plots Really Use Write

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 20th, 1941

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