64 Quotes by Kathryn Harrison

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

I love any book that makes my family seem almost normal.

I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story.

I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A's. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.

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.

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months.

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.

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.