Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus.
ALAN FURSTI expect them to have read books – there are a lot of people like that! That’s my audience.
More Alan Furst Quotes
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I write what I call ‘novels of consolation’ for people who are bright and sophisticated.
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I invented the historical spy novel.
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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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I read very little contemporary anything.
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I’m a genre writer.
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I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
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I’m not really a mass market writer.
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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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You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
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Live today, for tomorrow we die.
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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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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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Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It’s where it all began and ended.
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And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
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