Alan Furst Quotes

I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.

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• I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Time
  • Children
  • She

• If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Writing
  • Moving
  • Moving Forward

• I don't know how much the other fighters make. But I need to tell you that, for myself, money is not the first consideration.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Money
  • Know
  • Myself

• The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Alone

• Originally, I thought English was more my home. But Spanish is so much more romantic. I've had to learn new phrases. I've had to learn to be more secure about singing in Spanish. But I'm working on it.

  

  La India
  • Home
  • Singing
  • English

• If parents could just get their children moving around in the most simple and fun ways - jumping in leaves, dancing to pop music, throwing socks in a laundry basket - they could be sowing the seeds of great habits that could last a lifetime. It is all about turning it into a game.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Great
  • Music
  • Children

• As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Learning
  • Capable
  • Cruel

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• I thanked President Obama for the United States' work in supporting education in Pakistan and Afghanistan and for Syrian refugees.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Work
  • Education
  • Refugees

• Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Me
  • Control
  • Marriage

• I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always been the dream. But it's super fun to play a princess.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Fun
  • Dream
  • Play

• Science, in the broadest sense, includes all reasonable claims to knowledge about ourselves and the world.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • House
  • Play
  • Film

• One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.

  

  Owen Paterson
  • Everyone
  • British
  • Dessert

• I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.

  

  C. S. Forester
  • Together
  • Desire
  • End

• Everybody always thinks the grass is always greener.

  

  Patrick Ewing
  • Always
  • Everybody
  • Grass

• I watch a lot of bad TV. I spend my entire day reading and writing, and after dinner my idea of fun is just to watch a lot of bad TV. That's how I relax and stay in touch with modern culture.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Writing
  • Bad
  • Fun

• Our emotions are often beautiful, but they can also be dangerous. They represent our spontaneity, and seem to speak to us of our freedom.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Beautiful
  • Freedom
  • Speak

• I think diva is an inevitable outcome of the industry, and I don't think it reflects on the person at all. You take a normal human being, and basically, for 24 hours, seven days a week, apart from sleeping, you introduce them to places and things almost every minute that are brand new.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy

• I'm so afraid of confrontation.

  

  Elisabeth Moss

• First, it was not a strip bar, it was an erotic club. And second, what can I say? I'm a night owl.

  

  Marion Barry
  • Night
  • Owl

• I watch 'Jeopardy!' every night and 'Wheel of Fortune' follows. And every time I'm like, 'Whoa, it's still on! This is still happening!'

  

  Martha MacIsaac
  • Time
  • Night

• I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Book
  • Hope

• I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Night