Sometimes there's a sort of tear in the veil, and there are people who live in more than one dimension. Kathryn Harrison More Quotes by Kathryn Harrison More Quotes From Kathryn Harrison The Russian revolution is one of history's car wrecks. We do know the ending, but we continue to watch. It expresses aspects of human nature we find unacceptable. Kathryn Harrison ending car nature history I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household. Kathryn Harrison grandparents i-was-raised born real Rasputin's daughter understands the revolution. She would have been an outsider, a spectator in the royal family and to the revolution. Kathryn Harrison royal revolution family daughter I got history solidly under my belt, reading Russian history and biographies. I couldn't change the facts. I could only play with how the people might have responded to the facts of their lives. Kathryn Harrison reading change history people Looking at the Obamas, they have a lot to manage with their children and having Michelle go out and have everybody comment on what she was wearing, what it means. I think you have to create a pretty large private world to live in. Kathryn Harrison looking you children world It's hard for me not to have a great deal of compassion for the last Romanov family because, really, I don't know if a politically savvy ruler would have been able to make the situation turn out much differently. Kathryn Harrison great me family compassion I wrote 'The Kiss' 12 hours a day for six months. Kathryn Harrison kiss day hours six It is my conviction that secrets are more costly in the long run than honesty. Kathryn Harrison secrets run honesty long I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me. Kathryn Harrison me sorry love people 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 never writing character people For years, the place I really lived - the world I watched, the one I thought and wrote about - was 15th-century France. Kathryn Harrison place thought world years 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. Kathryn Harrison chapter will never book I used to enjoy reading true crime, but I've discovered that I don't have the journalism nose for blood. Kathryn Harrison true journalism enjoy reading 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 loved me mother book I reread 'Nicholas and Alexandra' in my early twenties, and I never forgot the story. Kathryn Harrison story never early twenties
