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'The Levanter' features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler - who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Action Features Fiction Found His Novel Place Scenes Some Stay Strongest Who Whole

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Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Consequences Conviction Done Evil Fast-Paced Finish Fired Regarding Schoolboy Start

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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

Topics: Better Dark Done Look Much Nothing Phony Pick Read Secret Something Stories Story Than Trail True True Story Up Use Where

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I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Knew Know Wanted Write Writer

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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

Topics: Explosion Fails Get Humans Like Me Never Other Shot Some Up Way

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I like to say I sit alone in my room, and I fight the language. I am wildly obsessive. I can't let something go if I think it's wrong.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Alone Am Fight Go Language Like Obsessive Room Say Sit Something Think Wildly Wrong I Think I Am

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I've always liked lost, old New York.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Always Liked Lost New New York Old York

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I never wanted to be a Cold War novelist.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Cold Cold War Never Novelist Wanted War

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For John le Carre, it was always who's betraying who: the hall-of-mirrors kind of thing. When you go back to the '30s, it's a case of good vs. evil, and no kidding. When I have a hero who believes France and Britain are on the right side, a reader is not going to question that.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Always Back Believes Betraying Britain Case Evil France Go Going Good Hero John Kidding Kind Question Reader Right Right Side Side Thing Who You

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Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.

~Alan Furst

Topics: Advised Genre Often Pick Simple Struggling Way Work Writers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 20th, 1941

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