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> [But when I realized it was actually going to be this portrait of the artist, birth to death, I had to then discover who Margaret as a young woman would be. I had to find the different voices for her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/but-when-i-realized-it-was-actually-going-to-be-this-portrait-of-the/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

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## More by Danielle Dutton

> [As a publisher what you are trying to build is a long life for a book, to help it find its readers in many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/as-a-publisher-what-you-are-trying-to-build-is-a-long-life-for-a-book/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [Back then, when I had that original idea to write about the seventeenth century, the whole thing was set in 1666. I was thinking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/back-then-when-i-had-that-original-idea-to-write-about-the/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/i-loved-reading-historical-novels-when-i-was-young-but-i-definitely/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [I'm not entirely sure what a historical novel absolutely has to be, but you don't want a reader who loves a very traditional historical…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/i-m-not-entirely-sure-what-a-historical-novel-absolutely-has-to-be/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [But when I realized it was actually going to be this portrait of the artist, birth to death, I had to then discover who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/but-when-i-realized-it-was-actually-going-to-be-this-portrait-of-the/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [I was obsessed with the scientific instruments people were building and all the weird experiments they were doing. I did actually wind up working…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/i-was-obsessed-with-the-scientific-instruments-people-were-building/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [Finding the form was really a very dynamic process. I went through a lot of shifting, trying to get it right. Because the writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/finding-the-form-was-really-a-very-dynamic-process-i-went-through-a/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/i-m-not-sure-running-the-press-has-changed-how-i-write-though-perhaps/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [I was trying to focus on Margaret's trajectory as an artist, as a woman and an artist. Hopefully Cavendish experts won't be angry at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/i-was-trying-to-focus-on-margaret-s-trajectory-as-an-artist-as-a/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [The reason the middle section switches to third person is, well, this is middle age. This is the part in her life where she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/the-reason-the-middle-section-switches-to-third-person-is-well-this/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [Margaret Cavendish was one of the people who came up in the course. That was when I started thinking about her as a character…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/margaret-cavendish-was-one-of-the-people-who-came-up-in-the-course/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [I was sad to see some of them go. Like a magic lantern that would project images on walls and people would travel the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/i-was-sad-to-see-some-of-them-go-like-a-magic-lantern-that-would/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [The way I've talked about my research process is that it was like magpies. I was just sort of moving through all these books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/the-way-i-ve-talked-about-my-research-process-is-that-it-was-like/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [I would be researching seventeenth-century garden design or I would be doing something with Pepys, but I just kept using all of it to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/i-would-be-researching-seventeenth-century-garden-design-or-i-would/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

> [I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own favorite books…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/danielle-dutton/i-sense-people-expect-something-to-show-for-ten-years-but-i-do-feel/)

[Danielle Dutton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/danielle-dutton/)

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