Alan Furst Love Quotations

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.

Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.

I love the gray areas, but I like the gray areas as considered by bright, educated, courageous people.

I love the combination of the words 'spies' and 'Balkans.' It's like meat and potatoes.

I love Paris for the million reasons that everybody loves the city. It's an incredibly romantic and beautiful place.