Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them. Alan Furst characterwrite Change image and share on social
Women take great care of themselves in France. It's a culture dedicated to making women beautiful and to manners. Alan Furst beautifulcareculture 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
Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them. Alan Furst brutalconsiderdramatic share on social
Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way. Alan Furst advisegenrepick Change image and share on social
Le Carre's voice - patrician, cold, brilliant and amused - was perfect for the wilderness-of-mirrors undertow of the Cold War, and George Smiley is the all-time harassed bureaucrat of spy fiction. Alan Furst amusebrilliantbureaucrat Change image and share on social
I am a historian. I do a lot of research, and I try to get it right. Alan Furst historianlotresearch Change image and share on social
I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt. Alan Furst auntbrazilcall Change image and share on social
I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place. Alan Furst beautifulcityincredibly Change image and share on social
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer. Alan Furst amblerdegreeeric Change image and share on social
