Kathryn Lasky Quotes
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With my husband, I have twice sailed across the Atlantic in a sailboat one third the length of the Mayflower. I know Atlantic gales inside and out. I endured one that lasted for three days with winds up to fifty knots.
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I always wondered what it was like to be just a normal kid growing up in trying times or during a great moment in history.
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I think, first and foremost, Marie Antoinette was intellectually impoverished. She really had never been introduced to the notion of abstract thinking - of thinking at all in any profound way.
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I can read a newspaper article, and it might trigger something else in my mind. I often like to choose in historical fiction things or subject matter I don't feel have been given a fair shake in history.
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I am not saying that the Renaissance in any way was a feminist movement - hardly. But the arts flourished, and in more social settings as opposed to being confined to the church.
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In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.
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Whether you are a twelve-year-old princess or a twelve-year-old regular kid, you need to know you are loved and respected.
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I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.
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Gylfie looked at Soren gravely. 'That is why we must learn how to fly before the next newing.''But I won't be ready. I won't have enough feathers,' Soren said.'Almost, though.''Almost? There's a difference, Gylfie, between almost and enough.''Yes. The difference is belief, Soren. Belief.'
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I treat all my characters as if they were real, and I am scrupulous about the details of their lives.
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I have redeemed myself by giving belief to the wings of the young. Blessed are those who believe, for indeed they shall fly.
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Never in a million years would I want to live at Versailles with Marie Antoinette or anybody else. I hate to tell you this but I did not even like visiting Versailles. I found it just too ornate. It was like a complete diet of cotton candy, marzipan, and whipped cream.