Alan Furst Quotes

I Don't Really Write Plots. I Use History As The Engine That Drives Everything.

And, 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 Newspapers. Or The Radio. Or Tomorrow.

I Don't Inflict Horrors On Readers.

You Write A Lot Of Books; You Hope You Get Better.

I Read Very Little Contemporary Anything.

I'm Not Really A Mass Market Writer.

I Write What I Call 'novels Of Consolation' For People Who Are Bright And Sophisticated.

It Takes Me Three Months Of Research And Nine Months Of Work To Produce A Book. When I Start Writing, I Do Two Pages A Day; If I'm Gonna Do 320, That's 160 Days.

The Printing Presses Of The State Treasuries Cranked Out Reams Of Paper Currency- Showing Wise Kinds And Blissful Martyrs- While Bankers Wept And Peasants Starved.

My Novels Are About The European Reality, Not About Chases. You Want Chases, Get Somebody Else's Books.

I'm Basically An Upper West Side Jewish Writer.

One Is What One Has The Nerve To Pretend To Be.