Books Quote by Alan Furst Download Open image “I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.” — Alan Furst ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Consolation Novel People Sophisticated Writing
I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light. — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine. — Lincoln Child Copy Share Image
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I write my books at moments of shock. I meet people in extremis and their stories are highly emotionally charged. — Svetlana Alexievich Copy Share Image
I love writing novels, even if only a few thousand people read them. Here's my soul; I hope it appeals to your soul. — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
I'm a very good storyteller; I have a lot of compassion for people. That's very useful for a novelist. A lot of novelists are… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
I hope my novels will allow you to become lost in a world totally unlike the actual world we live in. I work hard… — Jay Neugeboren 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
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
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
