Jacqueline Winspear

My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“The boy laughed, for he was a boy and not yet a man.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

“... truth has a certain buoyancy - it makes its way to the surface, in time.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.

— Jacqueline Winspear

My favorite way to unwind is to go for a walk with my husband and the dog at the end of the…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Their love was thus seeded in the rich soil of mutual understanding.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“What is certain, is that war will not leave us as it found us. —WOMAN AT HOME, February 1915”

— Jacqueline Winspear

“What interests me is the experience of ordinary people. To tell you the truth, although I can repeat certain dates, statistics, and…

— Jacqueline Winspear

What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are…

— Jacqueline Winspear

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

— Jacqueline Winspear

We talk about globalization today as if it's some great big new thing, that we've all just discovered. But there's really nothing…

— Jacqueline Winspear

Never judge a journey by the distance.

— Jacqueline Winspear

“But the thing is, in all my experience as an artist, I have found that there are people who want to destroy…

— Jacqueline Winspear

Im a storyteller; that is what I do. And Im particularly interested in history; and in history of a certain era. But…

— Jacqueline Winspear

Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.

— Jacqueline Winspear

“The feeling inside that she experienced when she saw the books was akin to the hunger she felt as food was put…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“I can dance with life again.”

— Jacqueline Winspear

“She closed her eyes, silently continuing the pleas that she be given words that might soothe, words that would begin the healing…

— Jacqueline Winspear

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving…

— Jacqueline Winspear

Because, we assume, these days, you just get in a car, you turn the key, and woosh, you're up the road. Or…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“... the vacuum left by the departing visitor seemed to echo along the hallway and into the walls. It was at those…

— Jacqueline Winspear

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

— Jacqueline Winspear

“Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“There are many oppressed people across the border, people who are dirt poor and have little chance in life. Then there are…

— Jacqueline Winspear