Alan Furst Quotes
Collection of top 76 famous quotes about Alan Furst
Alan Furst Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Alan Furst quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.
— Alan Furst
For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years.
— Alan Furst
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
— Alan Furst
I never wanted to be a Cold War novelist.
— Alan Furst
It was a great softening, night and day it continued, a water funeral for the dying winter.
— Alan Furst
I am a huge fan of Alan Furst. Furst is the best in the businessthe most talented espionage novelist of our generation. — Vince Flynn
Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.
— Alan Furst
when at last they'd had to admit to themselves that they'd made all the love they could, had been a last meal. Like
— Alan Furst
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
— Alan Furst
I read very little contemporary anything.
— Alan Furst
I don't work Sunday any more ... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death.
— Alan Furst
French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.
— Alan Furst
I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.
— Alan Furst
I'm not really a mass market writer.
— Alan Furst
I had a publishing history of murder mysteries.
— Alan Furst
Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel.
— Alan Furst
Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that?
— Alan Furst
I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
— Alan Furst
Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.
— Alan Furst
Charles McCarry is the best modern writer on the subject of intrigue - by the breadth of Alan Furst, by the fathom of Eric Ambler, by any measure.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.
— Alan Furst
When you are done living for yourself, only then do you learn that living for others is the privilege,' Renata
— Alan Furst
I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.
— Alan Furst
I don't inflict horrors on readers.
— Alan Furst
I've always liked lost, old New York.
— Alan Furst
Live today, for tomorrow we die.
— Alan Furst
Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.
— Alan Furst
I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
— Alan Furst
I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt.
— Alan Furst
If you're a writer, you're always working.
— Alan Furst
I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.
— Alan Furst
Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying
— Alan Furst
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
— Alan Furst
I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.
— Alan Furst
The best Paris I know now is in my head.
— Alan Furst
I invented the historical spy novel.
— Alan Furst
Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners.
— Alan Furst
If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
— Alan Furst
I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
— Alan Furst
You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.
— Alan Furst
