I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. Alan Furst brightcallconsolation Change image and share on social
I read very little contemporary anything. Alan Furst contemporaryread Change image and share on social
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better. Alan Furst bookhopelot Change image and share on social
What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead. Alan Furst bookcharacterdiscover Change image and share on social
I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times. Alan Furst autobiographybiographybook 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
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