Alan Furst Quotes & Sayings

20 most famous Alan Furst quotes and sayings (author). These are the first 10 quotes we have.

“Good people don't spend their time being good. Good people want to spend their time mowing the lawn and playing with the dog. But bad people spend all their time being bad. It is all they think about.”

“If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.”

“Whether you like it or not, Paris is the beating heart of Western civilisation. It's where it all began and ended.”

“The best Paris I know now is in my head.”

“I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.”

“I invented the historical spy novel.”

“I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.”

“I have a very serious censorship office inside my head; it censors things that I could tell you that you would never forget, and I don't want to be the person to stick that in your brain.”