Antonia Fraser Quotes

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• Of course there's no such thing as a totally objective person, except Almighty God, if she exists.
• The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
• Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God,…
• It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
• That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
• I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful…
• I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
• I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
• I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.
• I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
• I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
• I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.
• I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.
• Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in…
• People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
• Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema.
• Ninety-seven is my lucky number.
• My mother, who was quite sharp when I was young, became utterly mild.
• My mother was a politician in my formative years.
• Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special.

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