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.
From Alan Furst
I'm basically an Upper West Side Jewish writer.
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
I invented the historical spy novel.
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.
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
If you can live in Paris, maybe you should.
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer.
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