Lauren Willig
"Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M. M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities."
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"Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M. M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities."
"سواء شئت أم أبيت، فإن معظم صوري عن شعور الفترات التاريخية المختلفة، وروائحها، وأصواتها، قد اكتسبتها قبل أن تطأ قدماي أي فصل دراسي للتاريخ. لقد جاءتني من مارجريت ميتشل، ومن أنيا سيتون، ومن إم. إم. كاي، ومن كوكبة أخرى من المؤلفين، في مجلدات مكتباتهم البلاستيكية الخشنة. وسواء أقر المؤرخون بذلك أم أنكروه، فإن ابن عم التاريخ الأكاديمي غير الشرعي، أي الرواية التاريخية، يلعب دورًا عميقًا في تشكيل التصورات الشائعة للحقائق التاريخية."
Lauren Willig
"I never sat down and said, 'I'm going to write historical fiction with strong romantic elements.' It was just the way the stories went."
"لم أجلس قط وأقول: "سأكتب رواية تاريخية ذات عناصر رومانسية قوية." بل هكذا سارت القصص وحسب."
Lauren Willig
"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?"
"مهما قيل في الملكة إليانور، فقد كانت امرأة حصيفة، سريعة البديهة، تركت بصمتها في التاريخ. وبصفتها مؤسسة محاكم الحب، فأي راعية ملكية أفضل منها يمكن أن يجدها روائي رومانسي؟"
Lauren Willig
"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
"It is a truth universally acknowledged that one only comes up with clever, cutting remarks long after the other party is happily slumbering away."
Lauren Willig
"Whether I like it or not, most of my images of what various historical periods feel, smell, or sound like were acquired well before I set foot in any history class. They came from Margaret Mitchell, from Anya Seton, from M. M. Kaye, and a host of other authors, in their crackly plastic library bindings. Whether historians acknowledge it or not, scholarly history’s illegitimate cousin, the historical novel, plays a profound role in shaping widely held conceptions of historical realities."
Lauren Willig
"Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt."
Lauren Willig
"But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven."
Lauren Willig
"I love the sound of words, the feel of them, the flow of them. I love the challenge of finding just that perfect combination of words to describe a curl of the lip, a tilt of the chin, a change in the atmosphere. Done well, novel-writing can combine lyricism with practicality in a way that makes one think of grand tapestries, both functional and beautiful. Fifty years from now, I imagine I’ll still be questing after just that right combination of words."
Lauren Willig
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