If I stay in academia, I might end up going someplace random. Lauren Willig More Quotes by Lauren Willig More Quotes From Lauren Willig As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books. Lauren Willig whyfriendbestlines Say what you will about Queen Eleanor, she was a savvy, quick-witted woman who made her mark on history. And as the founder of the Courts of Love, what better patron monarch could there be for a romantic novelist? Lauren Willig youloveromantichistory My official field was Tudor-Stuart England; I also considered myself reasonably competent when it came to Renaissance and Reformation Europe. Lauren Willig myselfrenaissanceenglandeurope My own inclination is to skew towards humor. They say that some people view life as a comedy, others as a tragedy. Me? Comedy all the way. Lauren Willig mehumorlifepeople I tend to navigate by indirection, meaning that most of the major things in my life have happened when I've been thinking about something else. Lauren Willig meaningmy-lifelifethinking I went to grad school with the grand plan of getting my Ph.D. and writing weighty, Tudor-Stuart-set historical fiction - from which I emerged with a law degree and a series of light-hearted historical romances about flower-named spies during the Napoleonic wars. Lauren Willig planlawwritingschool I hadn't realized quite how intense the first few years of grad school would be. When you're being assigned 40 books a week... there's not much room for novels. Lauren Willig roombeingyouschool I'm not sure that teaching a Core course is necessarily the best introduction to teaching. Lauren Willig surebestcoreintroduction
