Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier
Tracy Chevalier FRSLis an American British historical novelist. She has written eight novels. She is best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth19 October 1962
CountryUnited States of America
men pearls wanted
I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.
book sick bed
I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.
hunting waiting matter
That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.
children book writing
I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.
fall angel waiting
I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss.’ Falling Angels
dog moving years
I didn't move. I've learned from years of experience that dogs and falcons and ladies come back to you if you stay where you are.
daughter names gossip
You know I don’t listen to market gossip,” she began, “but it is hard not to hear it when my daughter’s name is mentioned.
book reading writing
So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!
writing tired feel-good
I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.
book ideas moments
Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.
writing thinking interesting
Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
motivation inspiration painting
The sign of a masterpiece: A painting when there's a lack of resolution.
life beautiful cities
He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.
taken library bliss
I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.