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Jacqueline Winspear is a British author renowned for her detective novel series. Her works are characterized by historical background and complex character development, which have won her a wide readership.

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“in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.”

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Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“Most people don't realize that they feel something is wrong before they think something is wrong.”

People Thinking Feels Realizing Intuition

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“a question has the most power before we rush to answer it, when it is still making us think, still testing us.”

Thinking Stills Answers Testing

Book:Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

Source: Among the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel

“I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!”

Thinking War Would Be Interesting Battlefields Really Interesting Cemetery Explain Yourself

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“It was Harry Patch, who was the last living World War I veteran; and by veteran I mean someone who actually fought in the war, he didn't just happen to be in the army at that time, in the Great War. And when the Iraq War started, he was interviewed, and they said, well what do you think of this? And he said, in a very sad voice, "Well, that's why my mates died. We thought we were going to end all that sort of thing."”

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Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“I think that one of the things that we all ask ourselves, whoever we are, is: who stands to make a lot of money out of this [wars]? And, certainly, it comes back to people like armaments makers, and so on and so forth.”

People Thinking War Asks Makers Lots Of Money Armament

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.”

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Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and may miss the vital new information. Wait awhile in the stillness, and do not rush to conclusions, no matter how uncomfortable the unknowing.”

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Book:Maisie Dobbs

Source: Maisie Dobbs

About the Author

Born: April 30, 1955
Known for: Writer
Quotes: 74

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A Dangerous PlaceRelated source material

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