I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything. Download Download Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Rotate quotes drive engine history
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain. Alan Furst braincensorcensorship Change image and share on social
The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion. Alan Furst angrybrutalizationexplosion Change image and share on social
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past. Alan Furst 30s40sbook Change image and share on social
A myth is a lie that conceals or reveals a truth. But if it reveals even a strand of history or truth, that's what gets my adrenaline going. Ashwin Sanghi adrenalineconcealhistory Change image and share on social
The standardization of world culture, with local popular or traditional forms driven out or dumbed down to make way for American television, American music, food, clothes and films, has been seen by many as the very heart of globalization. Fredric Jameson americanclotheculture share on social
Early in the 1990s, I flew alone in a dandelion-yellow, single-engine, 180-horsepower Piper Cherokee from Westchester County Airport in New York westward to the Rocky Mountains, landing and refuelling a good many times in middle-sized cities and towns along the way. Cynthia Ozick 1990sairportcherokee share on social
