Quotes by Antonia Fraser

Antonia Fraser

British author of history, novels, biographies and detective

Alive from: 1932-

Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary)

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  After Mary Queen of Scots, I turned to the farthest subject possible: Cromwell.

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  As long as you persecute people, you will actually throw up terrorism.

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  I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.

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  I don't like it, but this afternoon I've told myself I am going to go and get a dress.

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  I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.

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  I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.

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  I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.

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  I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.

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  I think mine is the fullest and most plausible account of what went on in Marie Antoinette's life.

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  I think there has been a great deal of valuable revisionism in women's history.

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  I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

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  I'm glad I was never an heiress.

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  I'm very interested in good and evil and the moral natures of people.

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  If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us.

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  It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.