Top 46 Quotes by Kathryn Harrison

About Kathryn Harrison

These are some quotes by American author Kathryn Harrison Author, who was born on March 20, 1961.

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer!

Kathryn Harrison

For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.

For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France.

Kathryn Harrison

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.

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.

Kathryn Harrison

One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved - every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other.

Kathryn Harrison

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

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

Kathryn Harrison

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision.

Kathryn Harrison

The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.

The power of 'Madame Bovary' stems from Flaubert's determination to render each object of his scrutiny exactly as it looks, or sounds or smells or feels or tastes.

Kathryn Harrison

It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently.

Kathryn Harrison

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'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.

Kathryn Harrison

The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.

The least likely of military leaders, Joan of Arc changed the course of the Hundred Years' War and of history.

Kathryn Harrison

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