Will Harrison
Will Harrison
family royal spectator
Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution.
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Like all holy figures whose earthly existence separates them from the broad mass of humanity, a saint is a story, and Joan of Arc's is like no other.
conviction run secrets
It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty.
interested rational
I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.
I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters.
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I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.
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I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.
wrote
I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.
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I work in a small study on the top floor of a brownstone in Brooklyn - it's about 75 square feet, 11 taken up by book shelves along one wall.
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I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.
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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.
almost family love seem
I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.
work
I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.