My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. Alan Furst bookchaseeuropean Change image and share on social
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
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
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
I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people. Alan Furst areabrightconsider Change image and share on social
If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel. Alan Furst chaseedgeend share on social
We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do. Alan Furst 00019thamerican share on social
