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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.
— Kathryn Harrison
I have in my head a whole army of people pleading to be let out and awaiting my commands.
— Anton Chekhov
My days are as long as despair can make them.
— Kathryn Harrison
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.
— Kathryn Harrison
What we don't recognize is that holding onto resentment is like holding onto your breath. You'll soon start to suffocate.
— Deepak Chopra
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.
— Kathryn Harrison
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.
— Kathryn Harrison
For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.
— Kathryn Harrison
I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.
— Kathryn Harrison
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.
— Kathryn Harrison
We have not meet our destination till we are there for sure.
— Sara Shepard
Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.
— Kathryn Harrison
I don't know. Everything's better when you're around.
— Jamie McGuire
I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.
— Kathryn Harrison
One of the characteristics of love relationships that flower is a relatively high degree of mutual self-disclosure
— Nathaniel Branden
Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.
— Kathryn Harrison
I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.
— Kathryn Harrison
A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.
— Kathryn Harrison
How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
— Kathryn Harrison
Scars are stories, history written on the body
— Kathryn Harrison
I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.
— Kathryn Harrison
The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.
— Kathryn Harrison
I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
— Kathryn Harrison
I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story.
— Kathryn Harrison
I was very immersed in the world. I'm very worldly. I love world. I was immersed in my career, in school, in teaching.
— Frederick Lenz
Tears water our eyes.
"Remember," mom soothes, "like the beautiful blooms beneath the weeds, Nana is still Nana underneath. — Kathryn Harrison
"Remember," mom soothes, "like the beautiful blooms beneath the weeds, Nana is still Nana underneath. — Kathryn Harrison
I'm wearing the costume of a customer, and it smells cheap. Can you pass me the coupons, please?
— Jarod Kintz
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.
— Kathryn Harrison
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.
— Kathryn Harrison
I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.
— Kathryn Harrison
I admire cool renderings of hot topics.
— Kathryn Harrison