140 Quotes by Alan Furst

I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.

I never wanted to be a Cold War novelist.

I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?

I spend my life writing fiction, so reading fiction isn't much of an escape. That's not always true, but I don't read much contemporary fiction.

I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.

I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be.

I would have loved to have another 10 Eric Ambler books.

I wrote out little mysteries in longhand, and my mother typed them out on an old Remington.

I've evolved in my writing to tell a more emotional story - my publisher, Random House, has urged that.