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.
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 FURSTYou can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
ALAN FURSTThe printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
ALAN FURSTLive today, for tomorrow we die.
ALAN FURSTI don’t inflict horrors on readers.
ALAN FURSTI’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
ALAN FURSTI’m a genre writer.
ALAN FURSTGood 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 FURSTWherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
ALAN FURSTWhether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
ALAN FURSTGood people don’t spend their time being good.
ALAN FURSTI’m not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURSTI don’t just want my books to be about the ’30s and ’40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as ’40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
ALAN FURSTI grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
ALAN FURSTAnd, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURSTOnce you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
ALAN FURST