Alan Furst Quotes

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

~ Alan Furst

Genre Historical Honestly I Think Invented My Own Novel Own Spy Think

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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

Best Certainly Could Failed Going Novelist Paris Thing World Worst Worst Thing

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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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I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.

~ Alan Furst

Another Books Eric Loved Would

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I write about the period 1933-42, and I read books written during those years: books by foreign correspondents of the time, histories of the time written contemporaneously or just afterwards, autobiographies and biographies of people who were there, present-day histories of the period, and novels written during those times.

~ Alan Furst

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

~ Alan Furst

Bright Call Consolation I Write Novels People Sophisticated Who Write

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I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

~ Alan Furst

Little Longhand Mother Mysteries Old Out Them Wrote

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I wrote three mysteries and then a contemporary spy novel that was unbelievably derivative - completely based on 'The Conversation,' the movie with Gene Hackman. Amazingly, the character in the book looks exactly like... Gene Hackman.

~ Alan Furst

Amazingly Based Book Character Contemporary Conversation Derivative Exactly Gene Like Looks Movie Mysteries Novel Spy Then Three Unbelievably Wrote

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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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I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

~ Alan Furst

Basically Jewish Side Upper West West Side Writer

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I'm not really a mass market writer.

~ Alan Furst

Market Mass Mass Market Really Writer

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I've always liked lost, old New York.

~ Alan Furst

Always Liked Lost New New York Old York

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I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.

~ Alan Furst

Emotional Evolved House More Publisher Random Story Tell Urged Writing

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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

Although Ancestors Both Create Eastern Eastern Europe Europe I Can Lived Never Poland Russia Scenes See Wife

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If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel.

~ Alan Furst

Always Chase Edge End Fiction Fighting Genre Hero In The End Interest Kind Like Love Novel Some Work Writer You

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If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.

~ Alan Furst

Live Maybe Paris Should You

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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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If you're a writer, you're always working.

~ Alan Furst

Always Working Writer You

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In the 1930s, there were so many different conflicts going on between the British, the French, the Russians, the Germans, the Spaniards, the Romanians and so on.

~ Alan Furst

1930s Between British Conflicts Different French Germans Going Many Russians Were

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It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.

~ Alan Furst

Book Day Days Gonna Me Months Nine Nine Months Pages Produce Research Start Takes Three Two Work Writing

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