Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harknessis an American scholar, novelist and wine enthusiast, best known as a historian and the author of the "All Souls" Trilogy which consists of the The New York Times best selling novel A Discovery of Witches and its sequels Shadow of Night and The Book of Life...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
CountryUnited States of America
boyfriend caught cool imagining niece serve vampire
My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner.
anne books vampire whose witch
I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose books I read and loved.
complexity drinks good interest terms
For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.
spiritual study witch
The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
saws holes prove-it
You do angry. I just saw it. And you left at least one hole in my carpet to prove it.
kissing intimate palms
Wordlessly I looked back at him, astonished that a kiss on the palm could be so intimate.
queens kings moving
The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I’d rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.
stars sunset home
That evening, rowing on the quiet river as sunset turned to dusk, I saw an occasional smoky smudge on the towpath, always slightly ahead of me, like a dark star guiding me home.
firsts return tudors
My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.
voice control-myself able
Be still,” he said, voice harsh. “I might not be able to control myself if you step away.
writing years people
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire.
past remember remembering-the-past
Remember the past - and await the future.
together fundamentals provocative
Pamela Smith and Benjamin Schmidt have gathered together a wide-ranging and provocative set of original essays that successfully demonstrate how contingent the process of making knowledge was during a period of fundamental epistemological change. This is a finely crafted and conceptualized collection.
war two might
In this room we understand why this war might be fought...it's about our common belief that no one has the right to tell two creatures that they cannot love each other--no matter what their species.