Quotes from Alan Furst

Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way.

If you read the history of the national Socialist party, they're all people who felt like life should have been better to them. They're disappointed, vengeful, angry.

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

You could be a victim, you could be a hero, you could be a villain, or you could be a fugitive. But you could not just stand by. If you were in Europe between 1933 and 1945, you had to be something.

When you move a border, suddenly life changes violently. I write about nationality.