Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
ALAN FURSTWhether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
ALAN FURSTShowing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
ALAN FURSTGood people don’t spend their time being good.
ALAN FURSTOnce you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
ALAN FURSTIt takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
ALAN FURSTI expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
ALAN FURSTYou can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
ALAN FURSTWherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
ALAN FURSTLive today, for tomorrow we die.
ALAN FURSTI’m a genre writer.
ALAN FURSTI’m not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURSTAnd, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURSTYou write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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 FURSTMy novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
ALAN FURSTI don’t inflict horrors on readers.
ALAN FURST