“I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novell...” — Alan Furst Quote

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

“I never got any training in how to write novels as an English major at Oberlin, but I got some great training for writing novels from anthropology and from Margaret Mead.”

“When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.”

“Often I sort of work up and down the manuscript. I sometimes used to go ahead of myself to see what was going to happen next, to make certain it fits what was going to be happening soon.”

“I can almost always read a new manuscript overnight.”

“I think I'm from the 18th century, not even the 19th. I don't even use a typewriter. I prefer longhand, and that's how I submit my manuscripts to my publishers.”