My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
ALAN FURSTI’m a genre writer.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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Good 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.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
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If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
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One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
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When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I’m gonna do 320, that’s 160 days.
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Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
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The best Paris I know now is in my head.
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