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Deborah Harkness
Deborah Harkness
American Novelist
Born: 1965
Love People Thought Time World You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having very extreme hair, either amazingly beautiful straight hair or kind of wild. Deborah Harkness
Beautiful Home Family People Dangerous Hair Edge Wild Extreme Slightly Kind See Having More Like Witches Also Always Making Traditional Amazingly Very Craft Confident Either Straight Them Then Who Things
Falling in love is really relatively easy compared to staying in love and building a family that lasts. Deborah Harkness
Love Family Love Is Building Lasts Relatively Easy Staying Falling Falling In Love Really Compared
A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a world of mystery. Deborah Harkness
World Negative Reading Whatever Cynical Believe Assume Assumptions Our Worst Possibility Rush Mystery Fairly Still Lot Tastes Romance Want Fantasy Show Actually
Magic provides a way of still having room for possibilities, an unlimited sense of what the world offers. Magic is always there when science is found wanting. Deborah Harkness
Science World Sense Unlimited Way Possibilities Magic Having Always Still Provides Offers Wanting Room Found
I found a 'lost' manuscript called the Book of Soyga that had once belonged to Queen Elizabeth I's court astrologer, John Dee, in Oxford's Bodleian Library. Everybody thought it was the missing key to Dee's interest in magic. Of course, it wasn't really lost. It was there, in the catalog. Deborah Harkness
Library Book Queen Key Thought Lost Everybody Once John Magic Catalog Had Missing Course Court Oxford Interest Really Manuscript Found Belonged Elizabeth
I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction. Deborah Harkness
Love Time People Long Long Time Students Long Time Ago Empathize Highlights Fiction Them Really Really Long Time Working Who Helping Lived
I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983. Deborah Harkness
Work Good Good Material Magic About Studying Since Occult Material Been Storyteller Really
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
Today People Reading Ghosts Would About Also Demons Go Subjects Bump Very Realised Interested Much Things Night
I'd studied 16th century science and magic. I thought it was strange that people were interested in the same kinds of things my research was about. The more I thought about it, the more intriguing it became and pretty soon I was writing a novel about a reluctant witch and a 1500-year-old vampire. Deborah Harkness
Science Strange People Writing Thought Research Intriguing Vampire Kinds Pretty Magic About More Reluctant Studied Soon Witch Became Were Same Interested Century Novel Things
I couldn't resist hiding some historical details and a few clues relevant to the plot and characters of 'A Discovery of Witches' throughout the pages of the novel. Deborah Harkness
Few Relevant Hiding Plot Characters Details Some Throughout Witches Discovery Historical Clues Pages Novel Resist
My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores. Deborah Harkness
Time Finished Reading Project Bookstores Most Another Around Surf Fertile Just Started
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
Time Science People World Thought Long Long Time Past Out About Could Student Terrible Understand How Scientifically Just In The Past Turned Actually
Often, in books, I find female power to be cartoonish - power is a process, an evolution - it has responsibilities. It's not as simple as picking up your lightning bolt and throwing it at someone. Deborah Harkness
Simple Power Books Evolution Responsibilities Find Cartoonish Someone Throwing Picking Lightning Female Up Often Process Your Bolt
I became a teacher because I wanted to make a difference in people's lives. Deborah Harkness
Teacher People Make Make A Difference Became Because Difference Wanted Lives
As a historian, you can only go as far as the evidence will take you. Deborah Harkness
You Will Evidence Only Take Go Historian As Far As Far
What if 16th century people were right, and the supernatural and natural coexisted? How would that play out? Deborah Harkness
Natural People Out Would Supernatural How Were What If Century Play Right

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