I absolutely love Dorothy Dunnett’s ‘House of Niccolo’ series and the ‘Lymond Chronicles.’ They are so detailed. Deborah Harkness Read Quote
I re-read the books I assign to my students. Each time I do, I learn something new. Deborah Harkness Read Quote
I am so thrilled to carve out a few minutes to write that I grab it whenever I can. Deborah Harkness Read Quote
After 20 years of writing academic prose and lectures, it seems very familiar and straightforward to me. Writing a novel for the first time, I was reminded of just how difficult it is to figure out how to get this stuff done when you don’t really know what you’re doing. Deborah Harkness Read Quote
There is a lot of talk in the academy about the death of the humanities. Based on my readers’ response and their interest in history and literature and art, the death of the humanities has been grossly overstated. Deborah Harkness Read Quote
I was a terrible science student, and for a long time, I thought I just didn’t understand science. It turned out that I didn’t understand post-Newtonian science. I could actually understand how people thought scientifically about the world in the past. Deborah Harkness Read Quote
After finishing ‘The Book of Life,’ I needed a bit of a break from the Bishops and de Clermonts. Honestly, I wasn’t sure when – or even if! – they would capture all of my attention again. Deborah Harkness Read Quote
I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people’s lives. Deborah Harkness Read Quote
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 things that go bump in the night. Deborah Harkness Read Quote
