Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate. Susanna Kearsley More Quotes by Susanna Kearsley More Quotes From Susanna Kearsley One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices. Susanna Kearsley facebestwomenchallenges If it hadn't been for Bill Macdonald's book 'The True Intrepid,' I might never have found out about the women who went down to work in secret in New York for our own spymaster Sir William Stephenson in the Second World War. Susanna Kearsley womenworkwarworld When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men. Susanna Kearsley findingwomandaymen I can have my day carefully planned, but if someone wakes up with a cough or a sniffle, then everything changes. Thinking quickly and adapting without grumbling are essential skills to learn, in my opinion. Susanna Kearsley someonedayopinionthinking After the loss of my sister - my darkest time - I tried to think of the beauty she'd brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind. Susanna Kearsley timebeautyloveworld It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel. Susanna Kearsley drivinghappinessloveromantic How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story. Susanna Kearsley meetingstopstorypeople
