American - Author | February 20, 1941 -
French women will always look up at a man, even if he is four inches shorter than she is.
Alan Furst
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We're the roughest people in the way we play and live, and that is because Americans come from people who all got up one morning and went 5,000 miles, and that was a time in the 19th century when it wasn't so easy to do.
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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?
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I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.
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I figured I would always be a candidate for man of the year in the virtue-is-its-own-reward category. What that did was force me to concentrate on the work.
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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.
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Seattle's support system got me through those early, difficult years. It was a very funky, very friendly, very relaxed place that had it all for a writer.
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I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.
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'The Levanter' features some of the strongest action scenes to be found in Ambler - who can, in some of his fiction, stay in one place for a whole novel.
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Fast-paced from start to finish, 'The Honourable Schoolboy' is fired by le Carre's conviction regarding evil done and its consequences.
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I look for the dark story, where something secret was done. I read and read and pick up the trail of a true story. I use nothing but true stories. They are so much better than phony ones.
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I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.
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