The best way to show an emotion is not through a character’s words, but their smallest expressions – to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to ‘see.’ Susanna Kearsley Read Quote
There was no DVR, no Netflix, and no binge-watching. We didn’t even have a VCR till I was nearly out of high school. Susanna Kearsley Read Quote
As a former waitress myself, I know firsthand how a simple smile from someone can improve your day and how a single harsh word can destroy it. Being courteous and thoughtful costs you nothing and can sometimes pay you dividends in unexpected ways. Susanna Kearsley Read Quote
If it hadn’t been for Bill Macdonald’s book ‘The True Intrepid,’ I might never have found out about the women who went down to work in secret in New York for our own spymaster Sir William Stephenson in the Second World War. Susanna Kearsley Read Quote
The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie ‘Argo’ brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people. Susanna Kearsley Read Quote
Brantford was the fixed point of my universe, growing up. Both sets of grandparents lived there, with various cousins and uncles and aunts, and no matter how far we’d moved off, we came back there for regular visits. In a way no other houses have ever been, my grandparents’ houses were ‘home,’ and the sale of the last of those houses was hard. Susanna Kearsley Read Quote
I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn’t been changed since the 19th century. Susanna Kearsley Read Quote
It’s the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel. Susanna Kearsley Read Quote
