And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURSTWhether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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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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I’m a genre writer.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
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I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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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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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’m not really a mass market writer.
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