Alan Furst : (6)

" When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don’t like to be deflected by acrobatics. " - Alan Furst

" I had the experience of a monk copying documents, applying myself assiduously to my work. And I thought whatever happened, happened – this is just what I do in my life. " - Alan Furst

" The best Paris I know now is in my head. " - Alan Furst

" Moscow had this incredible, intense atmosphere of intrigue and darkness and secrecy. " - Alan Furst

" Spy novels are traditionally about lone wolves, but how many people actually live like that? " - Alan Furst

" My father died when I was young, and my mother, Ruth, went to work in an office selling theater and movie parties. She put me through private school, Horace Mann, in Riverdale. She sent me to camp so that I would learn to compete. She was a lioness, and I was her cub. " - Alan Furst