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Kathryn Harrison

American Author

Born: Mar 20, 1961

Arc Book Family Me People Work

Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar

I like vampires, tuberculosis, anything to do with blood. Then I read a biography of Rasputin and found out he'd had this daughter who had become a famous lion tamer and been billed as the daughter of the mad monk who was able to hypnotize animals with her eyes. It gave me a vision. Kathryn Harrison

Lion Me Eyes Vision Daughter Animals Become Gave Mad Out Vampires Able Had He Like Read Been Blood Tuberculosis Famous Anything Then Who Found Her Biography Monk

I am perfectly capable of writing things about myself that one doesn't discuss in polite company, but I was raised by people who said you don't discuss politics, you don't discuss religion, and you certainly don't discuss people's sex lives. Kathryn Harrison

I'm not an investigative journalist; I don't track crime or police blotters. Kathryn Harrison

Police Crime Journalist Investigative Track

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives. Kathryn Harrison

Our Rational Unconscious Between Always Been Interested Lives Intersection

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary. Kathryn Harrison

Writing Stay How Sane Necessary

I don't care what people think about me. I care what people think about my work. As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own. Kathryn Harrison

Happiness Work Me Woman People Care Values Before Own Young Think Others Please About My Own Young Woman Even Eager Served

I remember seeing my father only twice as a child for brief visits. As I grew up, I invented a father who was larger than life - stronger, smarter, more handsome, and even holier than other men. Kathryn Harrison

I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months. Kathryn Harrison

Day Kiss Months Hours Wrote Six

It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty. Kathryn Harrison

Honesty Long Conviction Secrets Run Costly More Long Run Than

Whether writing fiction or nonfiction, I've never had the sense I was 'making up' a character. It feels more like watching people reveal themselves, ever more deeply, more intimately. Kathryn Harrison

For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France. Kathryn Harrison

World Thought France About Wrote Years Place Really Lived Watched

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

Me Book Mother First Gave Robert Read Loved Grownup Eleven

I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story. Kathryn Harrison

Never Forgot Story Twenties Early

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

Success Creative Subscribe Few Fickle Input Mental Mental Illness How Very Modern Artists Depends Avatar Notion Many Illness Her Muse

How much of a book review is about the reviewer? Sometimes it's mostly about the reviewer! Kathryn Harrison

Book Sometimes About Mostly How How Much Review Reviewer Much

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

Love Me You Love Me Enough Pleasing Say Okay Inside See Total Facade Having Never Reveal Always Still End Up Familiar Then Really Creating Grown Now Grown-Up Compelled Things

I have at last admitted that not only was I angry with my mother, but, in fact, I wanted to destroy her as a child. And I was so concerned to be a woman who was different from my mother that I had this vast architecture of rules. Kathryn Harrison

Angry Woman Architecture Mother Rules Destroy Admitted Only Fact Vast Had Concerned Child Different In Fact Wanted Who Her Last

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