Top 46 Quotes by Kathryn Harrison

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men.

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.

The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable.

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

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

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

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.

I don't care what people think about me. I care what people think about my work. As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own.

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