David Liss Quotes

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• Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical fiction I've read in quite…
• Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage their research for readers of…
• I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.
• Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.
• I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.
• I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a lunchtime discussion of some interesting…
• I went with the old adage that you should write what you know. What I knew was 18th century Britain, so what I decided I…
• We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury and plenty that even all…
• I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter fixation.
• I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different, many people have habits or…
• In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
• In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another practitioner or from books; or…

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