Barbara Wood
Barbara Wood is a British novelist working in the genre of historical romance, born on January 30, 1947, in Warrington, in the United Kingdom.
Her fiction is written in English and belongs consistently to the genre of historical romance. That genre forms the defining characteristic of her body of work as a novelist, and it is within those terms that her writing is situated.
Wood holds citizenship of the United Kingdom and was born in Warrington. She has worked as a writer across her career, producing novels in English, and her sustained focus on historical romance places her among those authors whose output is identified primarily by genre.
Her catalogued identity is recorded under the authorized name "Wood, Barbara, 1947-," a designation that reflects the consistency with which her work has been documented and collected. Born in 1947, she built a career as a novelist, and historical romance has remained the through line of that career — the genre within which her novels are produced and understood.
Quotes by Barbara Wood
Wer den Willen hat, etwas zu tun, wird von denen, die es getan haben, in den Schatten gestellt.
Hotel owners see foreign investors as offering unfair competition if they don't pay any tax. We tell buyers what taxes they should pay, but you can safely bet that many developers forget to mention the tax due on rents. Instead, they are telling British holidaymakers how easy it will be to let their property to help pay the mortgage, which otherwise they might not be able to afford.
You can get a six-month rental from Spaniards who love skiing: they will drive or fly down from Madrid and block book an apartment for the whole skiing season. They are not there for the week but there for the weekend.
I think it would be really wonderful if Steve Jobs renovated the house, but I don't think that's going to happen. I would hope that if he really doesn't want the house and he doesn't want to restore it, that he would sell it to someone who does.
Forgiveness is not simply the absolving of an enemy, or one who has done us wrong. Forgiveness must encompass all those things which disturb the tranquility of our soul: the barking dog that robs you of sleep, the heat of summer, the cold of winter. Forgive the ingrown toenail, the flea that bites; forgive the cranky child, wrinkles, a forgotten birthday.
