I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.
I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous.
It can be a long gap between the emergence of fully researched historical biographies.
I love hearing details of writers' craft, as cannibals eat the brains of clever men to get cleverer.
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.
A little scorn is alluring.
I'm not really easy to live with! There needs to be unlimited patience and unconditional love. Men I've known before loved my independent spirit and were proud of my success, to the point that they'd become jealous of the time I devote to my career.
For as long as we can trace back human life, there's always been some sort of music - ceremonies, rituals. It's part of the human makeup.
Life was brutal and it made victims of everyone. ’ (Nykyrian)