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Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Rose Chevalier, FRSL (born October 19, 1962) is an American-British historical novelist. She has written eight novels. She is best known for her second novel, Girl with a Pearl Earring, which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.

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Say something worth the words.

Say, Words, Worth

My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month, when it was never clear what might happen. Warm days raised hopes until ice and grey skies shut over the town again.

Father, Happen, Ice, Skies, Town, Winter

I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.

Like, Men, Painted, Pearls, Wanted

It was not a house where secrets could be kept easily.

Easily, House, Kept, Secret, Secrets

As I get older, I use less jewelry - necklace or earrings each morning, not both; my clothes are getting more basic - fewer colours and simpler cuts; and my make-up is stripped back to basics.

Clothes, Colours, Cutting, Jewelry, Morning

I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.

Failure, Feel Good, Pages, Reach, Tired, Writing

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.

Battle, Book, Inspiring, Rare, Reading, Wins

So many (too many) books are published every year, and it seems everyone is writing a book. Perhaps we should all be reading more and writing less!

Book, Perhaps, Published, Reading, Writing

I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.

Bed, Book, Loved, Read, Sick

Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.

Fall, Saw, Saws, Shoulder, Star, Stars

That's how fossil hunting is: It takes over, like a hunger, and nothing else matters but what you find. And even when you find it, you still start looking again the next minute, because there might be something even better waiting.

Hunger, Hunting, Like, Looking, Might, Waiting

I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home

Home, Life, Street, Streets, Walked

Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.

Book, Come, Ideas, Moments, Normally

Although I always said that I wanted to be a writer from childhood, I hadn't actually done much about it until I came to London.

Although, Childhood, Done, London, Said

Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.

Enough, Life, Life Is, Long, Yes

Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum.

Adjectives And Adverbs, Approach, Care, Wearing, Women, Writing

I have spent my life waiting for something to happen,’ she said. ‘And I have come to understand that nothing will. Or it already has, and I blinked during that moment and it's gone. I don't know which is worse — to have missed it or to know there is nothing to miss. ’ Falling Angels

Already, Angel, Come, Fall, Miss, Waiting

It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined.

Become, Bigger, Daily, Dramatic, Important, Littles

I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

Bliss, Call, Come, Library, Life, Taken

I read a lot of fantasy. I adored 'Anne of Green Gables'. But my favourite books as a child were probably Laura Ingalls Wilder's 'Little House' series, about a pioneer family in the mid-19th-century American west. I often thought of them as I was writing 'The Last Runaway'.

Adored, Book, Children, Probably, Series, Writing