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My writing routine is: get son off to school and sit down at 8 A.M. I read what I wrote the day before, and…

— Tracy Chevalier

“While Molly and Joseph Anning suffered materially that winter, with many days of weak soup and weaker fires, Mary barely noticed how little she…

— Tracy Chevalier

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

— Tracy Chevalier

“I knew I should believe him, as he taught at Oxford, but his answers did not feel complete. It was like having a meal…

— Tracy Chevalier

“They were a mother's words, words I would say to my own daughter if I were concerned for her”

— Tracy Chevalier

“he was a collector rather than a hunter, buying his knowledge rather than seeking it with his own eyes and hands. I”

— Tracy Chevalier

“He spoke her name as though he held cinnamon in his mouth.”

— Tracy Chevalier

“There followed a time when everything was dull. The things that had meant something lost importance, though they were still there, like bruises on…

— Tracy Chevalier

“I had always thought of the sea as a boundary keeping me in my place on land. Now, though, it became an opening.”

— Tracy Chevalier

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from…

— Tracy Chevalier

“It is less distracting in the silence,” she said. “Sustained silence allows one truly to listen to what is deep inside. We call it…

— Tracy Chevalier

The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.

— Tracy Chevalier