Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
From Alan Furst
French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.
We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.
I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?
I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.
I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.
I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened - this is just what I do in my life.
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.
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