Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
ALAN FURSTWherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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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the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
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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.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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I don’t inflict horrors on readers.
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I 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.
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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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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
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I expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
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Good people don’t spend their time being good.
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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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