Anne Perry Quotes

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• Your own gown is most delicately suitable, both to the occasion and to yourself,' to be translated: Your gown is insipid and entirely forgettable. If…
• Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space,…
• The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
• I believe in an individual soul which travels through eternity. This life is far from all there is--in fact, it is a minute part, simply…
• ... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a…
• Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people…
• What do I believe? It has been a long journey of discovery. There have been hesitations and errors along the way, and no doubt will…
• You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit…
• I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I…
• I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
• I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work…
• I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
• The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe…
• We believe world peace is inevitable.
• Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different…
• I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
• Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a…
• The men who cannot laugh at themselves frighten me even more than those who laugh at everything.
• The mountains are so beautiful they make me ache inside because the moment I look away I know I shall need to see them again.…
• We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.

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