Antonia Fraser
Antonia Fraser
Lady Antonia Margaret Caroline Fraser, DBE, née Pakenham, is a British author of history, novels, biographies and detective fiction. She is the widow of the 2005 Nobel Laureate in Literature, Harold Pinter, and prior to his death was also known as Antonia Pinter...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth27 August 1932
book hands people
People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
fun class maids
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
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I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.
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I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.
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I decided as usual that justice lay in the middle - that is to say nowhere.
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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
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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 don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.
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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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After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.
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I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.
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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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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!