I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
ALAN FURST
I’m a genre writer.
More Alan Furst Quotes
-
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
ALAN FURST -
I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
ALAN FURST -
The best Paris I know now is in my head.
ALAN FURST -
And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURST -
I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
ALAN FURST -
I’m a genre writer.
ALAN FURST -
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
ALAN FURST -
I don’t just want my books to be about the ’30s and ’40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as ’40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
ALAN FURST -
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
ALAN FURST -
I read very little contemporary anything.
ALAN FURST -
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
ALAN FURST -
Live today, for tomorrow we die.
ALAN FURST -
I’m not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURST -
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
ALAN FURST -
If you’re a writer, you’re always working.
ALAN FURST -
I invented the historical spy novel.
ALAN FURST