Home / Quotes / Quote by Tracy Chevalier

Quote by Tracy Chevalier

“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.”

Quote by Tracy Chevalier

Author

Tracy Chevalier

Tracy Chevalier is a renowned British novelist known for her delicate narrative and profound historical insight. Her works often focus on characters and events from specific historical periods, using fictional stories to depict real historical backgrounds. more

You May Also Like

“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'.”

Writing Children Littles Book Lasts House Fantasy Century Green Series West Favourite Pioneers 19th Century Runaway Laura Wilder Green Gables American West Favourite Book

Author:Tracy Chevalier

“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.”

Ifs Knows Writing Care Approach Don't Care Sentences Description Layers Minimum Adjectives Older Women Adverbs Busier Adjectives And Adverbs

Author:Tracy Chevalier

“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.”

Feels Writing Trying Three Pages Tired Feel Good I Feel Good

Author:Tracy Chevalier

“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.”

Said Done Wanted Childhood London

Author:Tracy Chevalier

“Normally book ideas come to me in a moment.”

Book Ideas Moments

Author:Tracy Chevalier

“My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances; weve become the most famous bad orchestra in the world.”

People World Giving Has Beens Play Wife Terrible Musician Performances My Wife Hopeless Orchestra Great Success

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.”

World Feels Wells Joy Emotion Mood Combination Sheer Day To Day Exhilarating Day Life Day To Day Life

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Life should be embraced like a lover.”

Book:The Swimming Pool Season

Source: The Swimming Pool Season

“Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my own real surroundings.”

Real My Own Periods Research Setting Settings Acquire Surroundings Vividness

Author:Rose Tremain

“When you are the woman upstairs, nobody thinks of you first. Nobody calls you before anyone else, or sends you the first postcard. Once your mother dies, nobody loves you “best of all.” It's a small thing, you might think, and maybe it depends on your temperament, maybe for some people it's a small thing, but for me [...]”

People Thinking Firsts Might Mother Dies Love You Depends Temperament Small Things Think Of You Upstairs Postcards

Author:Claire Messud