Live today, for tomorrow we die.
ALAN FURSTLive today, for tomorrow we die.
ALAN FURSTYou can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
ALAN FURSTI expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language.
ALAN FURSTWherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying
ALAN FURSTOne is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
ALAN FURSTI’m not really a mass market writer.
ALAN FURSTOnce you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them.
ALAN FURSTI don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
ALAN FURSTI’m a genre writer.
ALAN FURSTIt takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book.
ALAN FURSTShowing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved.
ALAN FURSTMy novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else’s books.
ALAN FURSTThe printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency.
ALAN FURSTI’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
ALAN FURSTPoliticians were like talking dogs in a circus.
ALAN FURSTAnd, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania.
ALAN FURST