Alan Furst Quotes

I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.

Alan Furst

Quotes to Explore

We think of writing a book as a process, but the very word - process - suggests that there is one: a template to follow, a map to guide us. If that were true, someone would have surely figured out some marketable method we could all buy.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Writing
- Book
- True
No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.

Hanya Yanagihara
- Water
- Religion
- Color
I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.

Rachel Stevens
- Know
- Me
- Travel
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

Baltasar Gracian
- Time
- Never
- Word
Chinese consumption, particularly high-end consumption, is booming.

Wang Jianlin
- High
- Chinese
- Consumption
We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.

Ian Williams Battles
- People
- Doing
- Turn