Alan Furst Quotes

I started writing in my 20s. I just wanted to write, but I didn't have anything to write about, so in the beginning, I wrote entertainments - mainly murder mysteries.

Alan Furst

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BeginningWritingWriteAnything

I asked a French critic a couple of years ago why my books did so well in France. He said it was because in my novels people both act and think. I got a kick out of that.

Jim Harrison

PeopleThinkSaidWhyOutCritic

There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. So people say things to me that they wouldn't say to other people. Insulting, condescending things. They don't think I notice. But, of course, I'm taking it all in.

Jennifer Coolidge

PeopleMeThinkSayIntelligent

I see myself as an interpretative actor rather than a creative one.

John Hurt

MyselfCreativeActorSeeI See

You're wrestling seven days a week for four months straight. It's a great way to learn.

Robert Maillet

GreatLearnWeekYouWayWrestling

I don't understand why people talk of art as a luxury when it's a mind-altering possibility.

Jeanette Winterson

ArtPeopleLuxuryWhyUnderstand

I enjoy provocative things that are questionable.

Michael Douglas

EnjoyThingsQuestionableProvocative

Motion is tranquility.

Stirling Moss

TranquilityMotion

I loved theater growing up, and my mom always took us to the touring productions that would come through town. We would go to Chicago all the time and see shows. I loved it.

Robin Lord Taylor

TimeMomGrowing UpLovedGrowing

Drake brought me out at the O2 in London and Barclays Center, and I'm on 'More Life.'

Jorja Smith

LifeMeLondonMoreOutCenter

Once you succeed at what you're doing, your parents see that what you were doing wasn't so bad after all, though they'd prefer to see you in a secure lifestyle where you have a contract for years and years, or you have a diploma or degree.

Dolores O'Riordan

ParentsSucceedDoingYouBadSee

One of my favorite things about working on 'Liv and Maddie' is the creative environment that has been designed for us by our lovely director, producers, and writers.

Dove Cameron

CreativeEnvironmentDirectorLovely

A fresh and vigorous weed, always renewed and renewing, it will cut its wondrous way through rubbish and rubble.

William Jay Smith

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