Quotes by Deborah Harkness

About Deborah Harkness:

Deborah Harkness is an American scholar, novelist and wine enthusiast, best known as a historian and the author of the "All Souls" Trilogy which begins with The New York Times best selling novel A Discovery of Witches and includes its sequels Shadow of Night and The Book of Life.
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All that children need is love, a grown-up to take responsibility for them, and a soft place to land.

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I want a simple, ordinary life . . . like humans enjoy.

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Matthew kept hinting that his desire - for blood, chiefly- was so strong that it put everything else at risk. But vampires weren’t the only creatures who had to manage such strong impulses. Much of what qualified as magic was simply desire in actio...

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I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.

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Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

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My ideas about vampires may by romantic, but your attitudes toward women need a major overhaul.

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The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. Whoever does not know it and can no longer wonder, is as good as dead, and his eyes are dimmed (Albert ...

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En quelques jours, ils avaient noué une alliance malsaine avec un jeune et élégant vampire français du Garden District aux cheveux blonds improbables, et totalement dénué de scrupules.

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Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them.

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My experiences thus far had me planning to throttle the first Tudor historian I met upon my return for gross dereliction of duty.

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Witches are the kind of more traditional, home and family, craft people - so they're the ones who are making things; crocheting shawls and things like that. But then they also have that slightly confident, dangerous, edge. I always see them as having...

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My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vam...

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I teach 18- to 21-year-olds - the 'Harry Potter' generation. They grew up as voracious readers, reading books in this exploding genre. But at some point, I would love for them to give Umberto Eco or A.S. Byatt a try. I hope 'A Discovery of Witches' w...

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As a historian, I love every little detail, but whole long passages about wood paneling and journeys on horseback and every stop at every inn had to go out the window. I decided the history in the books should be like spice in a soup - a little went ...

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There were no vampires of note in Western literature until about the 18th century. But they tell us where we park our anxieties, whether its over-powerful women, death or damnation. We make our own monsters.

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I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

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For me, a $20 wine that drinks like a $40 wine in terms of complexity and interest is a value, while a $5 wine that is not very good is not a value at all in my opinion.

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I really love helping students and helping them empathize with people who lived a really long time ago. That's one of the highlights of working in fiction.

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A lot of our assumptions of the world are fairly cynical, fairly negative, and assume the worst. What our reading tastes show - in this rush to fantasy, romance, whatever - is that we actually still want to believe in a world of possibility, in a wor...

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The world of scholarship is much more measured in its appreciation and also its criticism than the world of popular literature.

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Author Bio

  • NameDeborah Harkness
  • DescriptionAmerican scholar, novelist and wine enthusiast
  • Born1965
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionHistorian; Novelist
  • WorksA Discovery Of Witches; Shadow Of Night
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship