Alan FurstI don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.364Hope
Alan FurstI don't inflict horrors on readers.365Reading
Alan FurstI invented the historical spy novel.301Reading
Alan FurstThe printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while bankers wept and peasants starved. ✨ Alan Fu… ▶3710DeathPoliticsReading
Alan FurstPoliticians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what they said ✨ Alan Furst … ▶272PoliticsReadingTruth
Alan FurstYou can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.3410Humanity
Alan FurstThe best Paris I know now is in my head.307Thought
Alan FurstI read very little contemporary anything. ✨ Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas' by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.3210LoveReading
Alan FurstOne is what one has the nerve to pretend to be. ✨ Alan Furst (2007). The World at Night: A Novel, p.9, Random House227Reading
Alan FurstWherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying238Humor
Alan FurstAnd, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the … ▶172Reading
Alan FurstI'm not really a mass market writer.2410Hope
Alan FurstGood people don't spend their time being good. 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 … ▶151HumanityPoliticsThought
Alan FurstI write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.185HopeHumanityReading
Alan FurstIf you can live in Paris, maybe you should.219Reading
Alan FurstIf you're a writer, you're always working.198Love
Alan FurstI grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer. ✨ Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray… ▶165LoveReading
Alan FurstWhether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.168Love
Alan FurstMy novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.1410ReadingTruth
