Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrison
Kathryn Harrisonis an American author...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth20 March 1961
CountryUnited States of America
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I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.
I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story.
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I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.
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I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.
How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!
For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.
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Because the kind of nonfiction I write has a plot, the events and transactions that make up a life, nonfiction offers me a break from plotting.
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A lot of writers dwell on their relationships with their mothers, but only a few are worth reading.
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I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.
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The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.
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Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.
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Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in.
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Lives that are so conspicuous have a claustrophobic feeling. Once you're in charge of running a country, you're under scrutiny all the time. That's a trap.
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I admire writers who succeed at what I consider the first demand of art: that the artist vivisect himself without pity, without hesitation, determined to reveal whatever he might find.