Anne Perry
Anne Perry
Anne Perryis an English author of historical detective fiction, best known for her Thomas Pitt and William Monk series. At the age of fifteen she was convicted of participating in the murder of her friend's mother, in 1954. She changed her name after serving her sentence...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 October 1938
challenges stories wwi
I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous.
felt hope intense peace prayer
I think there was an intense hope and prayer that peace would happen. From (Farmer's) activities, we know that she felt it was an astonishing event.
heart optimism brain
... She knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit rather than the brain, was a fatal flaw, the seed of death.
anchors skills people
Mystery writers' conventions are usually good, and this one has been excellent and extremely well prepared and thought out in advance. A lot of people have given their time and their skill, and a good deal of wit, and Anchorage has made us extraordinarily welcome.
writing people doe
You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why.
couple war moving
I was born in London, England, in 1938, a few months before the war, and spent the first years of my life there, although I was evacuated a couple of times for short periods. My schooling was very interrupted, both by frequent moves and by ill health.
hurt trying way
We all try to forget what hurts us, it is sometimes the only way we can continue.
falling-in-love mean thinking
Please don’t think so lightly of liking someone. It’s terribly important. It is a kind of loving, you know, and one that frequently lasts a lot longer than romance. You can fall out of love, as well in. Most of us do, especially if you don’t actually like the person as well. It doesn’t always grow into love by any means, but sometimes it does.
two pages week
I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks.
lying cleaners wounds
The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
believe dark light
I believe in an individual soul which travels through eternity. This life is far from all there is--in fact, it is a minute part, simply an antechamber, a deciding place where we choose the light from the dark, where we come to know what we truly value.
past differences people
I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?
dream mind library
A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.
beauty pain kind
some kinds of beauty did not heal, but hollowed the pain even deeper.