Antonia Fraser Quotes

Antonia Fraser

Antonia Fraser

British Author

Born: Aug 27, 1932

Book Mary Mother People Think Women

Related authors: Dorothy L. Sayers George Eliot George Orwell Ian Fleming James Allen Marcus Buckingham Neil Gaiman Virginia Woolf

That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. Antonia Fraser

Writing Prison Writers Major Concern Who

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police. Antonia Fraser

People Police Books Tend Get Hands Just Even Deserts

Ninety-seven is my lucky number. Antonia Fraser

Lucky Number

My advantage as a woman and a human being has been in having a mother who believed strongly in women's education. She was an early undergraduate at Oxford, and her own mother was a doctor. Antonia Fraser

Mary Queen of Scots was my first love, and that is always something special. Antonia Fraser

Love Queen First Something Something Special Mary First Love Always Special

It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies. Antonia Fraser

Long Emergence Between Historical Fully Gap Biographies

If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us. Antonia Fraser

Day You Cold Write Know Sure Because Us

The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous. Antonia Fraser

Photography Book Too Glamorous Look Friendly Jacket Clue

I'm glad I was never an heiress. Antonia Fraser

Glad Never

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't. Antonia Fraser

War People Think Tremendous Through Split Between Been Who

I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order. Antonia Fraser

Writing Crime Think Sort Link Trying Order Preserve

I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress. Antonia Fraser

Myself Dress Like Am Go Get Going Afternoon

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