I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
ALAN FURSTIf you’re a writer, you’re always working.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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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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I’m a genre writer.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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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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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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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.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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Showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
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