I’m not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURSTI’m not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURSTI invented the historical spy novel.
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 FURSTI don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
ALAN FURSTWhen I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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 FURSTLive today, for tomorrow we die.
ALAN FURSTI expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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 FURSTI grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
ALAN FURSTthe fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
ALAN FURSTAnd, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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 FURSTI’m a genre writer.
ALAN FURST