KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Alan Furst Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Alan Furst

Showing 41-50 of 96 Quotes by Alan Furst

When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible detail. I'll read a whole book and get three words out of it, but they'll be three really good words.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Alert Always Am Book Detail Get Good Google Incredible Material Out Period Read Really Three Whole Words I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Between British Conflicts Different French Germans Going Many Russians Were 1930S

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: About Because Book Characters Discovered Lead Learning Like Me Most Pleasurable Repeat Things

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


I just became what I call an 'anti-fascist novelist.' There is no word that covers both the fascists and the Communists, which mean different things to people, but of course they're the same: they're tyranny states.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Became Both Call Communists Course Covers Different Different Things Just Mean Novelist People Same States Things Tyranny Which Word

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


You have to have heart's passion to write a novel.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Heart Novel Passion Write You

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


A book must have moral purpose to be any good. Why, I don't know.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Any Book Good Know Moral Must Purpose Why

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: About Am Ambition Call Delusions Entertain Escape Fiction Good High Means Serious Whatever Work Writer I Am

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Brutal Considered Dramatic Germans Had Hatred How Just Know Particular People Poland Poles Really Story Survive Them Those Tragic Unbelievable Very Were Wildly

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Being Dark Good Good Thing Life Lived Love Only Romantic Romantic Love Sex Thing Way

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

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

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 20th, 1941

Links

Find Alan Furst on Amazon

Related Authors

Leo Buscaglia
Joseph Campbell
Frederick Douglass
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Helen Keller
Henry David Thoreau
Mark Twain
Zig Ziglar

Popular Authors

Johnny Cash Salvador Dali Mahatma Gandhi Jeremy Irons Soren Kierkegaard Georgia O'Keeffe Bertrand Russell Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1806 - Isambard K. Brunel

1821 - Charles Baudelaire

1865 - Adela Florence Nicolson

1872 - Leon Blum

1888 - Sol Hurok

1893 - Charles Simmons

1898 - Paul Robeson

1905 - J. William Fulbright

1906 - Victor Vasarely

1910 - Abraham A. Ribicoff

Birthdays on April 9th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Brainy Faith Forgiveness History Intelligence Mom Patriotism Pet