Antonia Fraser Quotes
30 Antonia Fraser quotes:
"One couldn't help thinking of Princess Diana when writing some passages, although I don't make a mention in the text, which would be anachronistic."
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"I enjoyed writing mysteries out of my imagination as a relief from all that research, and also because I could write them while traveling."
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"I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell."
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"I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people."
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"Ninety-seven is my lucky number."
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"Normally I make myself swim, do exercises. For zest I like going to the cinema."
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"People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police."
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"We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged."
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"As the seventh wife of Henry VIII I hope I would have managed to do the old monster in-my cooking comes to mind, as I am a hopeless cook."
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"I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting."
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"King Juan Carlos would be worthy of a full biography as a major player in his country's history. Alas, my Spanish is not good enough to offer myself!"
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"The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!"
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"Why waste time instructing others when you could be reading the manuscripts yourself? The only exceptions are matters of foreign language."
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"The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous."
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"My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor."
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"After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell."
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"I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress."
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"I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me."
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"I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette."
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"I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order."
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