Books Quote by Alan Furst

I began writing fiction because it was the only way to tell all the intricacies of a real-life spy story.

— David Ignatius

Now I basically just read spy stories because they're about solving a puzzle within the constraints of history. It's the tick tock, the clockwork…

— Malcolm Gladwell

I wrote 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' at the age of 30 under intense, unshared personal stress and in extreme privacy.…

— John le Carre

Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical…

— Hilary Mantel

I think I would have been a hopeless spy. I love telling stories and am almost entirely unable to keep a secret.

— Ben Macintyre

I was never a spy. I was with the OSS organization. We had a number of women, but we were all office help.

— Julia Child

I've known several spies who have wanted to become novelists. And novelists who became spies, of course.

— Christopher Koch

I grew up reading the classic novels of Cold War espionage, and I studied Russian history and Soviet foreign policy.

— Daniel Silva

I think I was 13 years old when my father put in my hands 'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold.' It was…

— Stellan Skarsgard

I feel really lucky that I grew up pretending to be a spy for my whole childhood.

— Daryl Sabara

I invented it, Bill made it famous.

— David Bradley

I invented nothing new, I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom there was centuries of work.

— Henry Ford