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19 quotes by Deborah Harkness

Deborah Harkness (born 1965) is an American scholar, novelist and wine enthusiast, best known as a historian and the author of the "All Souls" Trilogy which begins with The New York Times best selling novel A Discovery of Witches and includes its sequels Shadow of Night and, The Book of Life.
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A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to... →

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Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things... →

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Films are wonderful but they do fix an identity. I can't read 'Pride and Prejudice' anymore, for instance, without imaging Colin Firth as... →

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My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you... →

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Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately... →

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The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

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As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to... →

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I realised that today we are very much interested in reading about subjects that would have also interested people in the 1500s: ghosts, demons and... →

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I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches'... →

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I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working... →

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I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at... →

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I'm a professional non-fiction reader, that's what I do. But in my 20s we had our own vampire and witch moment, courtesy of Anne Rice, whose... →

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Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found... →

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