Books Quote by Alan Furst

I think that technology is always invented for historical reasons, to solve a historical problem. But they very soon reveal themselves to be capable…

— Brian Eno

Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian…

— C.J. Sansom

I think in some ways what Snowden is, is he's a mix of a cold war spy novel and post-9/11 spy novel.

— Alex Berenson

I like to take certain aspects of genre fiction and modify them in my own way. 'Your Republic Is Calling You' follows the form…

— Kim Young-ha

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before,…

— John le Carre

Later, I went one step further, by putting in some invented "historical" bits [into the Lincoln in the Bardo]. And reading those alongside the…

— George Saunders

In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications…

— John Updike

Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.

— Jim Cooper

Accursed be he that first invented war.

— Christopher Marlowe

“Anything invented before you were eighteen was there all along. Anything invented before you’re thirty is exciting and will change the world forever. Anything…

— Cory Doctorow

Football wasn't invented until the Premier League, we all know that.

— Phil Dunster

Redemption is invented by the sinner.

— Lawrence Hill