I read very little contemporary anything.
From Alan Furst
I don't inflict horrors on readers. In my research, I've uncovered truly terrible documentations of cruelty and torture, but I leave that offstage. I always pull back and let the reader imagine the details. We all know to one degree or another the horrors of war.
I'm not really a mass market writer.
If you're a writer, you're always working.
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
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.
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.
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