"I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writers, I'm a genre writer."

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Source : "Spy novelist Alan Furst: 'I love the gray areas'" by Todd Leopold, www.cnn.com. December 4, 2001.

Alan Furst

#Reading Quotes #Degrees Quotes #Eric Quotes

“To believe in the things you can see and touch is no belief at all. But to believe in the unseen is both a triumph and a blessing.”
“I worry more about something that isn't working rather than something that feels really good. You forget about the good stuff.”

Source : Interview with Jason Schwartzman, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 15, 2010.
“I never use nature as a starting point. I never abstract from nature; I never consciously think of nature when I paint.”

Source : Adolph Gottlieb, Robert M. Doty, Diane Waldman (1968). “Adolph Gottlieb”
“Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did.”
“If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights.”
“I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.”
“People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to the fact that people in high tech societies receive neither strong myths and stories from their culture nor the ability to construct their own... they lose the plot.”
“I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.”

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