What did Alan Furst mean by: If you’re a writer, you’re always working. - Alan Furst Author · USA Copy
+ Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don’t tell them. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Furst, Character, Writing, 0 - Alan Furst Author · USA
+ Wherever God has planted you, you must know how to flower – translated from a French saying Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Furst, Flower, 0 - Alan Furst Author · USA
+ You can’t make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Furst, Heroic, 0 - Alan Furst Author · USA
+ You write a lot of books; you hope you get better. Feraz Zeid, October 15, 2023December 26, 2023, Alan Furst, Book, Get Better, Writing, 0 - Alan Furst Author · USA
+ I don’t really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything. Feraz Zeid, January 5, 2024January 7, 2024, Alan Furst, Plot, Writing, 0 - Alan Furst Author · USA
+ Live today, for tomorrow we die. Feraz Zeid, July 24, 2023December 12, 2023, Alan Furst, Live For Today, Tomorrow, 0 - Alan Furst Author · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
