Best quotes by Alan Furst on Work
Checkout quotes by Alan Furst on Work
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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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‟ The way I work: I pick a country. I learn the political history - I mean I really learn it; I read until it sinks in. Once I read the political history, I can project and find the clandestine history. And then I people it with the characters.
- Alan Furst
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‟ Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
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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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‟ I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.
- Alan Furst
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‟ If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel.
- Alan Furst