I’m a genre writer.
ALAN FURSTI expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
More Alan Furst Quotes
-
-
I read very little contemporary anything.
ALAN FURST -
Good people don’t spend their time being good.
ALAN FURST -
If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
ALAN FURST -
I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
ALAN FURST -
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
ALAN FURST -
I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
ALAN FURST -
The best Paris I know now is in my head.
ALAN FURST -
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
ALAN FURST -
I’m not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURST -
I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
ALAN FURST -
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
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 -
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
ALAN FURST -
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
ALAN FURST -
The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
ALAN FURST






