I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I’ve discovered that I don’t have the journalism nose for blood. Kathryn Harrison Read Quote
When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie’s ‘Nicholas and Alexandra.’ It was the first ‘grownup’ book I read, and I loved it. Kathryn Harrison Read Quote
I reread ‘Nicholas and Alexandra’ in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story. Kathryn Harrison Read Quote
How many artists subscribe to the notion that creative success depends on input from the fickle muse or her modern avatar, mental illness? Probably very few. Kathryn Harrison Read Quote
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 Read Quote
How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it’s mostly about the reviewer! Kathryn Harrison Read Quote
Having grown up so familiar with creating a pleasing facade, I now end up compelled to reveal things inside and say, ‘Okay, now you really see me. Do you still love me?’ And then it’s never enough; it always has to be total self-revelation. Kathryn Harrison Read Quote
I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there. Kathryn Harrison Read Quote
Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father’s flocks. Kathryn Harrison Read Quote
