115 Quotes by Tracy Chevalier

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn’t actually done much about it until I came to London.

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.

Our lives are becoming more convenient but less tangible, and bookshops are the victims of that choice.

Stay here and do the packing and let the young one run all over California for you! Don’t you always say the success of collecting is in the packing? You’re the boss – take the most important role and stop moaning!

Yes, Mary Anning, you are different from all the rocks on the beach.

People had gone west leaving behind all sorts of trouble; what they found in California was the space and freedom to create new trouble.

Pieter would be pleased with the rest of the coins, the debt now settled. I would not have cost him anything. A maid came free.