Alan Furst Quotes

Alan Furst
American Author
Born: Feb 20, 1941
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Anthony Powell taught me to write; he has such brilliant control of the mechanics of the novel. Alan Furst
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I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator. Alan Furst
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What I discovered is I don't like to repeat lead characters because one of the most pleasurable things in a book to me is learning about the lead. Alan Furst
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You have to have heart's passion to write a novel. Alan Furst
You Heart Passion Write Novel
I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means. Alan Furst
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If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry. Alan Furst
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I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript. Alan Furst
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I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it. Alan Furst
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My theory is that sometimes writers write books because they want to read them, and they aren't there to be read. And I think that was true of me. Alan Furst
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I've never lived in Eastern Europe, although both my wife and I have ancestors in Poland and Russia - but I can see the scenes I create. Alan Furst
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For me, Anthony Powell is a religion. I read 'A Dance to the Music of Time' every few years. Alan Furst
Music Time Religion Me Dance Few Every Read Years
I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel. Alan Furst
Own Think Honestly Invented My Own Genre Historical Spy Novel
I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be. Alan Furst
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People know accuracy when they read it; they can feel it. Alan Furst
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The 1930s was a funny time. People knew they might not live for another six months, so if they were attracted to one another, there was no time to dawdle. Alan Furst
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For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published. Alan Furst
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I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt. Alan Furst
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You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something. Alan Furst
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My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub. Alan Furst
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I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington. Alan Furst
Mother Old Mysteries Typed Out Longhand Wrote Little Them
I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead. Alan Furst
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We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do. Alan Furst
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I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do? Alan Furst
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