I read very little contemporary anything.
ALAN FURSTI read very little contemporary anything.
ALAN FURSTI don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
ALAN FURSTThe printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
ALAN FURSTI write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
ALAN FURSTI invented the historical spy novel.
ALAN FURSTWherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
ALAN FURSTIt takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
ALAN FURSTI’m a genre writer.
ALAN FURSTLive today, for tomorrow we die.
ALAN FURSTShowing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
ALAN FURSTthe fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
ALAN FURSTI expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
ALAN FURSTPoliticians were like talking dogs in a circus.
ALAN FURSTI’m not really a mass market writer.
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 FURSTI expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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