Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
ALAN FURSTI’m not really a mass market writer.
More Alan Furst Quotes
-
-
I’m not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURST -
You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
ALAN FURST -
I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
ALAN FURST -
I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
ALAN FURST -
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
ALAN FURST -
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 FURST -
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
ALAN FURST -
Good people don’t spend their time being good.
ALAN FURST -
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
ALAN FURST -
I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
ALAN FURST -
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
ALAN FURST -
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
ALAN FURST -
Live today, for tomorrow we die.
ALAN FURST -
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
ALAN FURST -
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
ALAN FURST






