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I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.

My days are as long as despair can make them.

I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.

I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.

Don't portray yourself as who you want to be. Portray yourself as who you are.

For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author.

I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.

Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.

I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

Scars are stories, history written on the body

The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story.

Tears water our eyes.

"Remember," mom soothes, "like the beautiful blooms beneath the weeds, Nana is still Nana underneath.

When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.

Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.

I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.

I admire cool renderings of hot topics.

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.