Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear
Jacqueline Winspear is a mystery writer, author of the ‘Maisie Dobbs’ series of books which explore the aftermath of World War I. She has won several mystery writing awards for books in this popular series...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionWriter
jobs fun college
My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford it, so I decided to get myself a job where I could travel. I did it for two years and had great fun.
jobs helping-others nurse
She had always told herself that she did hti job because she wanted to help others; afterall, hadn't Maurice told her once that the most important question any individual could ask was, "How might I serve?" If her response to that question had been pure, surely she would have coninued with the calling to be a nurse.... But that role hadn't been quite enough for her. She would have missed the excitement, the thrill when she embarked on the work of collecting clues to support a case.
moving heartfelt mountain
It is indeed a wondrous universal alchemy, is it not? When one's heartfelt intentions cause mountains to move.
war past historical
What does anyone really know about the impetus to go to war? And so much is uncovered in hindsight. And there are aspects of even past wars that are only coming out now. Historians discover letters here, notes there, and look very carefully at different aspects of not only any conflict but any great historical event.
memories chains-that-bind golden
Memories are links in a golden chain that bind us until we meet again.
book riches
One always has riches when one has a book to read.
worry anxiety doe
Yes, it does make the load rather heavy if you carry tools for every eventuality.
running queens war
If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in the years, in the run-up to the First World War. And I mean, there was a connection there. He was, indeed, Queen Victoria's grandson. You know, they were all related, all these royal families.
hope war thinking
in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.
thinking people intuition
Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong ...
distance journey judging
Never judge a journey by the distance...
war thinking people
I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.
thinking answers testing
a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.
trouble teach
Stay with the question. The more it troubles you, the more it has to teach you.