When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don’t like to be deflected by acrobatics. Alan Furst Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I’ve evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story – my publisher, Random House, has urged that. Alan Furst Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt. Alan Furst Read Quote
I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington. Alan Furst Read Quote
