I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
From Alan Furst
When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.
I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right.
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.
I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create.
Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy.
Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
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.
Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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