Alan Furst Quotes

If I'm a genre writer, I'm at the edge. In the end, they do work like genre fiction. You have a hero, there's a love interest, there's always a chase, there's fighting of some kind. You don't have to do that in a novel. But you do in a genre novel.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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You set out to tell a good story. You don't do it because there is a deep message involved, because the movie is almost always bad when you do that. Your job No. 1 is for it to be entertaining, and if it's inspiring, that is great, too.

John Lee Hancock

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I want to go to dinner with Oprah! Who doesn't?

Amy Purdy

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Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.

Tony Visconti

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To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.

Romesh Gunesekera

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Essentially, we wanted to be in one of Azazel's films, so the notion was we'd simply write an Azazel Jacobs movie ourselves, and then give it to him and be like, 'Right, here's you next film, now direct us. Go.'

Dolly Wells

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Watching 'Scandal' is a fun and exciting guilty pleasure, which is how I imagine most real scandals start out.

Donna Brazile

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As Israel prepares to enter, my position is well known. It is one that I have taken at previous Olympics. It is wrong that the IOC refuses to have a minute's silence for Israeli athletes that were slaughtered in Munich.

Brian Williams

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Netanyahu's government and its faulty and politicized priorities are leading Israel into bankruptcy.

Tzipi Livni

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It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Thomas Paine

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The recognition that things that are not sustainable will eventually come to an end does not give us much of a guide to whether the transition will be calm or exciting.

Timothy Geithner

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The first film I made was when I was 13 and it was called 'The Dogs That Ate Detroit.' It starred my Saint Bernard Barney, and it was a killer thriller with oodles of special effects that were cutting edge for the time.

Les Claypool

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I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

Lewis Grizzard

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