"I grew up reading genre writers, and to……" — Alan Furst
"I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer."
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25 Quotes by Alan Furst
Alan Furst has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The printing presses of the state treasuries cranked out reams of paper currency- showing wise kinds and blissful martyrs- while…
- Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person…
- And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't…
- You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
- Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing…
- I don't inflict horrors on readers.
- I invented the historical spy novel.
- I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
- I read very little contemporary anything.
- I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.
- I'm not really a mass market writer.
- If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
More Ambler Quotes
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