I started out when I was 29 - too young to write novels. I was broke. I was on unemployment insurance. I was supposed to be writing a Ph.D. dissertation, so I had a typewriter and a lot of paper. Alan Furst breakdissertationinsurance Change image and share on social
Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences. Alan Furst carreconsequenceconviction Change image and share on social
I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states. Alan Furst anticallcommunist share on social
I don't work Sunday any more... The Sabbath is a very reasonable idea. Otherwise, you work yourself to death. Alan Furst deathideareasonable Change image and share on social
The 1930s was a funny time. People knew they might not live for another six months, so if they were attracted to one another, there was no time to dawdle. Alan Furst 1930sattractdawdle Change image and share on social
The idea that someone is going to write me, and I'm not going to answer - I was just raised not to do that. We are the result of our upbringing, and my upbringing was very much to meet obligations... You just didn't let things go. Alan Furst answerideameet share on social
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience. Alan Furst audiencebookeurope Change image and share on social
If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry. Alan Furst angrydisappointfelt Change image and share on social
Robert Ludlum, all of them, write the absolute best they can. You can't tone it down. You just do what you do, and if it comes out literary, so be it. Alan Furst absoluteliteraryludlum Change image and share on social
I read very little contemporary anything. Alan Furst contemporaryread Change image and share on social
