My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I’d rather lose… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new. — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
People think about history as all grand gestures or significant moments, but the most valuable lesson we can learn is the enduring… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I was a terrible science student, and for a long time, I thought I just didn't understand science. It turned out that… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“I was attuned to the rhythms of the earth and sky in ways that I had not been before I lived in… — deborah harkness Copy Share Image
“I just killed a man! This isn't the moment to discuss our marriage." "Nonsense. Marrying amid bloodshed is a de Clermont family… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“I was jealous of Blanca, but Matthew wouldn't understand how or why. I gathered my thoughts and emotions and tried to sort… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
“History only became more challenging when it became less neat. Every time I pick up a book or document from the past,… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time,… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
“As far as I can tell there are only two emotions that keep the world spinning year after year...One is fear. The other is… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
“Some swore he was a maid in man's attire, For in his looks were all that men desire, A pleasant smiling cheeke, a speaking… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
I took a course on 'Magic, Alchemy, and Astrology' at Mount Holyoke, and it was a whole new awakening for me, a way of… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I’d rather lose the game… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out? — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
I think you can learn a lot from primary sources. 'The Penguin Book of Witches,' which is edited by novelist Katherine Howe, is a… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
“History only became more challenging when it became less neat. Every time I pick up a book or document from the past, I'm in… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
We live in a world where we think the mysterious is retreating farther and farther from our lives and eventually we will know all… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
“Give me knowledge of my end and the measure of my days, so I may know my frailty. My lifetime is no longer than… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share
