Alan Furst Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.”

“I don't inflict horrors on readers.”

“I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.”

“I read very little contemporary anything.”

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

“I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.”

“I'm not really a mass market writer.”

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

“My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.”

“I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.”