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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.

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

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I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.

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I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood.

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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.

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

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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.

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One of the things I find exciting about Joan of Arc is how clearly the story of her life reveals the creation of myth, a process in which every one of us is involved - every one of us who tells stories and all those who listen, each informing the other.

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

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: March 20th, 1961

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