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Once upon a time, about 10 years ago, I thought maybe I could write a mystery series about a midwife in Elizabethan England. I had an elaborately convoluted title and an elaborately convoluted plotline, and at that point I got stupendously bored.

~Deborah Harkness

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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

Topics: Also Always Amazingly Beautiful Confident Craft Dangerous Edge Either Extreme Family Hair Having Home Kind Like Making More People See Slightly Straight Them Then Things Traditional Very Who Wild Witches

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For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.

~Deborah Harkness

Topics: Complexity Drinks Good In My Opinion Interest Like Me Opinion Terms Value Very While Wine

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The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.

~Deborah Harkness

Topics: Absolutely Beings Century Obsessed Period Plain Spiritual Study Truth Truth Is Were Witches

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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

Topics: Empathize Fiction Helping Highlights Lived Long Long Time Long Time Ago Love People Really Really Long Time Students Them Time Who Working

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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

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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

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There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.

~Deborah Harkness

Topics: About Anxieties Century Death Literature Make Monsters Note Our Own Park Tell Until Us Vampires Were Western Where Whether Women 18Th Century

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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

~Deborah Harkness

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I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' will serve as a kind of stepping-stone.

~Deborah Harkness

Topics: Books Discovery Exploding Generation Genre Give Grew Harry Harry Potter Hope Kind Love Point Potter Readers Reading Reading Books Serve Some Stepping-Stone Teach Them Try Up Voracious Will Witches Would

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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