Alan Furst

I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.

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These are some quotes by American author Alan Furst Author, who was born on February 20, 1941.

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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

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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.

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'The Levanter' features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler - who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel.

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