When I went to prep school in New York City, I had to ride the subway and learned how to do homework on the train. I can work and read through anything. Alan Furst Read Quote
Fast-paced from start to finish, ‘The Honourable Schoolboy’ is fired by le Carre’s conviction regarding evil done and its consequences. Alan Furst Read Quote
I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones. Alan Furst Read Quote
I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn’t know what to write. Alan Furst Read Quote
The brutalization of humans by other humans never fails to get to me in some angry-making way. It shot up in me like an explosion. Alan Furst Read Quote
Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn’t work that way. Alan Furst Read Quote
Venice has always fascinated me. Every country in Europe then was run by kings and the Vatican except Venice, which was basically run by councils. I’ve always wondered why. Alan Furst Read Quote
I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn’t much of an escape. That’s not always true, but I don’t read much contemporary fiction. Alan Furst Read Quote
