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Susanna Kearsley

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

Susanna Kearsley

When you say that you write romantic fiction, there are a lot of people who have an image in their mind of the ‘bodice ripper.’ It’s the one term that most romantic fiction writers absolutely hate because it has no bearing on what people are writing.

– Susanna Kearsley

Susanna Kearsley

How much of our lives is consumed with meeting people, attracting people, keeping people and missing people? Usually, when everything is resolved romantically in one of my books, the characters stop talking in my head, and I stop telling the story.

– Susanna Kearsley

Susanna Kearsley

I grew up in a very small town where nearly everyone knew each other, and odds were that whatever you said about a person would make it back to them by nightfall – something incomers learned, to their frequent embarrassment.

– Susanna Kearsley

Susanna Kearsley

When I’m dealing with the 18th century, as I do in ‘The Firebird,’ the difficulty isn’t only finding what a woman did, it’s finding her at all. Most of the sources I’m dealing with – letters and memoirs and written reports of the day – have been written by men.

– Susanna Kearsley

Susanna Kearsley

If it hadn’t been for Bill Macdonald’s book ‘The True Intrepid,’ I might never have found out about the women who went down to work in secret in New York for our own spymaster Sir William Stephenson in the Second World War.

– Susanna Kearsley

Susanna Kearsley

One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.

– Susanna Kearsley

Susanna Kearsley

In my book ‘The Winter Sea,’ set north of Aberdeen, I couldn’t just ignore the fact some people there – especially the people in the past – would speak the Doric.

– Susanna Kearsley

Susanna Kearsley

Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don’t blame them. I’ve read books myself that I’ve had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.

– Susanna Kearsley

Susanna Kearsley

Writing is sometimes a balancing act between keeping things easily readable and being accurate.

– Susanna Kearsley

Susanna Kearsley

I once walked through an exhibit in a large American museum that displayed First Nations artifacts in old dioramas, with mannequins that hadn’t been changed since the 19th century.

– Susanna Kearsley

Susanna Kearsley

In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard.

– Susanna Kearsley

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