black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.

Related Topics

Drive Engine Everything History Plot Really Use Write

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
ALAN FURST

Character Once Tell Write
I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
ALAN FURST

Drive Engine Everything History Plot Really Use Write
I read very little contemporary anything.
ALAN FURST

Anything Contemporary Little Read
When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
ALAN FURST

Day Do Gonna Page Start Two Write
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
ALAN FURST

Country Except Feeling Foreign Language Reader Been Some
the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
ALAN FURST

Actual Believe Exist Fact Interest Person Sane Uncommonly
I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
ALAN FURST

Basically Country Side Upper West Writer
I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
ALAN FURST

Bright Consolation Novel People Sophisticated What Write
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 FURST

Came Country Frontier Newspaper Next Radio Telephone Tomorrow Trust
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURST

Armies Country Much Occupy
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
ALAN FURST

Better Book Get Hope Lot Write
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers.
ALAN FURST

Book Degree Genre People Person Raed Writer
The best Paris I know now is in my head.
ALAN FURST

Best Country Hed Know
I invented the historical spy novel.
ALAN FURST

Historical Invent Novel Spy
I’m not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURST

Market Mass Really Writer
I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
ALAN FURST

Audience Book Expect Have Like Lot People Read

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes