I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
ALAN FURSTI expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
ALAN FURSTMy novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
ALAN FURSTI 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.
ALAN FURSTthe fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
ALAN FURSTPoliticians were like talking dogs in a circus.
ALAN FURSTI’m a genre writer.
ALAN FURSTI don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
ALAN FURSTGood people don’t spend their time being good.
ALAN FURSTIf you’re a writer, you’re always working.
ALAN FURSTWhether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
ALAN FURSTI’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
ALAN FURSTOn the Greek frontier, one wasn’t sure what came next. So, don’t trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.
ALAN FURSTIt takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
ALAN FURSTWhen I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
ALAN FURSTI grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
ALAN FURSTLive today, for tomorrow we die.
ALAN FURST