“I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.” — Alan Furst Quote

“I think I honestly invented my own genre, the historical spy novel.”

“I read very little contemporary anything.”

“I'd never been in a police state. I didn't know what it was. I knew that it was, in the general way that people know that two and two is four, but it had no emotional value for me until I found myself in the middle of it.”

“We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.”

“He invented this idea of telling the life story of a great writer through becoming his characters and becoming him. It was such a pleasure and I thought we must find another writer.”

“Congress as a whole is less popular than it's been since polling was invented.”