I believe that reading widely is the best preparation for writing. Kathryn Lasky More Quotes by Kathryn Lasky More Quotes From Kathryn Lasky I think Sacajawea was caught in a series of tragic situations - her kidnapping as a child, her being passed from tribe to tribe, being sold into marriage. However, I never thought of her as a tragic figure. I do not think she was a victim in the way we think of tragic figures. Kathryn Lasky child think marriage way I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings. Kathryn Lasky loved imagination history people I came from a home where everybody had a book. Kathryn Lasky everybody where home book With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots. Kathryn Lasky inside know three husband I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. Kathryn Lasky stars play love thinking Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream. Kathryn Lasky live never you hate I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way. Kathryn Lasky never think way thinking I loved to read, and if I could've been a professional reader, that's probably what I would've wanted to be! Kathryn Lasky read professional loved been I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted. Kathryn Lasky i-feel feel always daydreaming I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history. Kathryn Lasky great moment growing-up history In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came. Kathryn Lasky here immigrants community people It is not a happy lot being a princess in any country, but especially Japan in which every tiny aspect of one's life is governed by the most rigid rules of protocol. Kathryn Lasky princess happy life country In terms of the Japanese royal family, they were considered the direct descendants of a god. They are regarded as all-powerful and possessors of unimaginable wealth, and yet they are, more often than not, literally prisoners of tradition. Kathryn Lasky royal tradition family god I was actually very hesitant to write about Marie Antoinette. She seemed at first glance - well, I cannot think of any other term - an airhead of the first degree. Kathryn Lasky she well cannot think I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize Theron would make a lovely Marie Antoinette. Kathryn Lasky think stars love thinking I did not find that writing a diary with a lead male character differed in any essential way from writing one with a female character. They all had the same challenges in terms of attempting to establish an identity, coping with loneliness, friendships, relationships. Kathryn Lasky loneliness challenges character way
