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.
ALAN FURSTThe printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don’t want to be the person to stick that in your brain.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I don’t just want my books to be about the ’30s and ’40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as ’40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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On the Greek frontier, one wasn’t sure what came next. So, don’t trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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