Civilisation Quote by Alan Furst

“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

“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

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

— Alan Furst

“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

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

“Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.”

— Alan Furst

“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

I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated.

— Alan Furst

“This year, of course, being 1936, there would be no figs.”

— Alan Furst

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

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

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