Alan Furst Quotes

Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in Havana' may be his best.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 20, 1941

Topics

WorkBestManSurveyHavanaMay

I love doing things that people don't expect.

Mayer Hawthorne

LovePeopleDoingThingsExpect

I don't want to sound pompous, but I really think your gender doesn't necessarily dominate your sexual activity.

John Lone

ThinkGenderWantSoundActivity

Quite frankly, I would prefer to have a non-Christian like Mitt Romney who at least pretends to embrace biblical principles over a professing Christian like Barack Obama who embraces very unbiblical positions on abortion.

Robert Jeffress

ChristianAbortionEmbracePrinciples

Melissa Barak, an ex-City Ballet dancer and sometime choreographer, has put together an unspeakably dopey and incompetent mess called 'Call Me Ben,' combining ultra-generic dance, terrible dialogue and disastrous storytelling, about the founding of Las Vegas by the gangster Bugsy Siegel, who insists, violently, on being addressed as 'Ben.'

Robert Gottlieb

TogetherDanceMeGangsterVegas

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

Ruth Ozeki

AloneTimeMindWritingYouOwn

Cops are everywhere in New York City. Cars drive by every few minutes. Uniforms stand nonchalantly at street corners.

Chris Gethard

New YorkCityDriveStandStreet

Somebody somewhere decided to put me on TV without really thinking twice about it.

Chris March

MeThinkingWithoutTwiceSomewhere

I've always thought the Nat Turner story to be very interesting.

Colson Whitehead

StoryThoughtInterestingAlways

Invest in a feather duster - the possibilities are endless.

Anne Rice

PossibilitiesInvestFeatherEndless

I try to always have a hair cut that I don't have to style every day, so I'll usually just let my hair air dry.

Allison Williams

StyleDayHairEvery DayTryAir

We have not even sworn off. Instead, the problem has been removed. It does not exist for us.

William Griffith Wilson

ProblemUsExistOffBeenEven

To govern mankind, one must not overrate them.

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

MankindMustGovernThem

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