History Quote by Alan Furst Download Open image “I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.” — Alan Furst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Plot Use Writing
I get fed up with plots that are driven by someone constantly getting information on a computer. — Liam Neeson Copy Share Image
That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down. — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I write my scripts on a whim, without worrying about plot points and graphs. — Gautham Menon Copy Share Image
I almost write to formula, because there's a historical beginning, then the plots get convoluted. — Clive Cussler Copy Share Image
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I always think plot is what you fall back on if you can't write, to keep things going. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head. — William Landay Copy Share Image
I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years. — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
I begin by assembling notes on characters. Large swaths of the plot become clear to me as I do this. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
“It was dawn by the time the detective showed up; tired and weary. Tired because he’d been called from his bed before dawn, weary… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Luftmenschen were also eternal students, lost souls, young people who spent their lives arguing politics in cafés and drifting through the student communities of… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“There's a French saying, ‘Où le Dieu a vous semé, il faut savoir fleurir.’ Let's see, ‘Wherever God has planted you, you must know… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
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… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.” — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
“when at last they’d had to admit to themselves that they’d made all the love they could, had been a last meal. Like” — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
Politicians were like talking dogs in a circus: the fact that they existed was uncommonly interesting, but no sane person would actually believe what… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and… — Alan Furst Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
