140 Quotes by Alan Furst

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

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower - translated from a French saying

Live today, for tomorrow we die.

One is what one has the nerve to pretend to be.

I'm not really a mass market writer.

Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying.

I’m basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.

And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini’s armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn’t sure what came next. So, don’t trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.

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.