"I went with the old adage that you……" — David Liss
"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 would do is write a novel based on my dissertation research."
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12 Quotes by David Liss
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Seduction is an absolute pleasure to read -- clever, suspenseful, exciting, mysterious, learned, and engrossing. Some of the best historical…
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Wright and Cowen, who have separately written important scholarly works on the financial history of the early republic, here repackage…
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I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.
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Sometimes you make your mistakes with your eyes wide open.
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I once spent a spent a summer selling encyclopedias door to door.
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I do, in fact, have a book club. I meet with a couple of guys once a month of a…
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We live in this era that has benefited from the Industrial Revolution, and we live with a kind of luxury…
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I was always a big Justice League fan. I always loved Batman, Superman - I have a weird Martian Manhunter…
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I am saying that while popular culture usually portrays practitioners of magic as separate from ordinary people, often biologically different,…
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In my research, what I found most interesting was how common and ordinary magic was to people in the past.
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In the past, people generally believed they could acquire magic in two ways: through learning the craft, either from another…
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