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

~Alan Furst

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The idea that someone is going to write me, and I'm not going to answer - I was just raised not to do that. We are the result of our upbringing, and my upbringing was very much to meet obligations... You just didn't let things go.

~Alan Furst

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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

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My grandmother, whom I adored, and who partly raised me, loved Liberace, and she watched Liberace every afternoon, and when she watched Liberace, she'd get dressed up and put on makeup because I think she thought if she could see Liberace, Liberace could see her.

~Alan Furst

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I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.

~Alan Furst

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I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper.

~Alan Furst

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I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.

~Alan Furst

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What you get in the Cold War is 'the wilderness of mirrors' where you have to figure out what's good and what's evil. That's good for John le Carre, but not me.

~Alan Furst

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Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.

~Alan Furst

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I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.

~Alan Furst

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 20th, 1941

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