Susanna Kearsley Quotes

Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

Susanna Kearsley

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• When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

  

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• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

  

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• A news organization has a much different responsibility. I might not be telling you the whole story. I might not be telling you a story in a manner that is properly sophisticated.

  

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• I love traveling. But I haven't had big, transformative experiences while on the road. When I go out on the road, it's to go out and get a story or do a promotional event.

  

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• A novel requires a certain kind of world-building and also a certain kind of closure, ultimately. Whereas with a short story you have this sense that there are hinges that the reader doesn't see.

  

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• With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.

  

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• When everyone around you is doing all this incredible pirate acting and you're having to sort of play the straight guy and move the story forward, you kind of want to be doing some of that pirate ripping it up stuff, but in truth, to be a part of that project is what I love.

  

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• I love mystery novels... I love seeing the dramas played out in academic departments, particularly English departments. I started reading these when I was going up for tenure.

  

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• Occasionally I write a small piece or the odd lecture in English, and I teach in English, but my fiction is always written in German.

  

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• I think most fiction focuses on uncomfortable settings because that's interesting.

  

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• Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

  

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• Barack Obama was speaking to a Jewish group, and he told them that his name Barack is the same as the Jewish word 'baruch,' which means one who's blessed. That's what he said, yeah. Obama had a harder time explaining his middle name, Hussein. Things got quiet there.

  

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• It's nice to be back in this gray, dingy hallway.

  

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• Winners are born, Champions are made.

  

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• I'd sooner wear white shoes in February, drink unsweetened tea, and eat Miracle Whip instead of Duke's than utter the words 'you guys'.

  

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• Romantic fiction, in the broader sense, can be any novel that has a love story somewhere in it. It can be a mystery or a historical novel, as long as it has this very strong romantic thread running through it.

  

  Susanna Kearsley
  • Story
  • Romantic
  • Mystery