Virginia Henley Quotes

In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It took me a year to complete the manuscript. I was a forty-year-old Scarborough housewife who knew no one in publishing.

Virginia Henley

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: December 5, 1935

Topics

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Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

John Elway

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When you explore a scene, the most important thing is who to cast.

Andy Garcia

YouImportantExploreCastWhoMost

As far as inspiration is concerned, I only have one person - Madhubala. She was beautiful like a wax doll. And I just love her eye movement and those pure emotions which strike your heart.

Mawra Hocane

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I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel.

Tom Lehrer

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The first time I almost died was surfing: I got hit on the head with a board. I went under and started swimming until I hit the bottom of the ocean. I thought, 'Oh my God, I'm going the wrong way. Do I have enough air to get back up?' If you're a surfer, you know the feeling.

Robert David Hall

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By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.

Robert Dallek

TimePresidentIllusionsSecond

Wars will remain while human nature remains. I believe in my soul in cooperation, in arbitration; but the soldier's occupation we cannot say is gone until human nature is gone.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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Universal suffrage is sound in principle. The radical element is right.

Rutherford B. Hayes

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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.

Mary Harris Jones

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Writers are the lunatic fringe of publishing.

Judith Rossner

FringeLunaticPublishingWriters

One of the central memories of my childhood is of hunting - not well; I am a terrible shot - quail and dove and grouse on a farm on the Tennessee River.

Jon Meacham

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Directing is a rarefied business. And you see very few women pass that Rubicon.

Donna Langley

WomenBusinessYouSeePassFew

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