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“Era un pensiero doloroso ma la verità lo è sovente.”

Tracy Chevalier libro Strane creature

Remarkable Creatures

“Ho iniziato il romanzo [La ragazza con l'orecchino di perla] nel febbraio 1998, il giorno in cui ho scoperto di essere incinta. L'ho finito prima di partorire. Di solito un libro mi richiede più tempo, ma questo aveva una scadenza biologica.”

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da Chevalier: «Un quaderno arancione come il colore usato da Vermeer» https://web.archive.org/web/20160101000000/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2001/settembre/25/Chevalier_quaderno_arancione_come_colore_co_0_01092511701.shtml, Corriere della sera, 25 settembre 2001

“[Riguardo La ragazza con l'orecchino di perla] Volevo scoprire che cosa il pittore aveva detto, o fatto, alla ragazza del dipinto per provocare quello sguardo: un misto di paura, desiderio, innocenza e seduzione. Nessuno sa chi era la modella, quindi ho dovuto inventarmi una storia.”

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ibidem

“[Riguardo La dama e l'unicorno] Ci sono molte interpretazioni della leggenda dell'unicorno. C'è quella di natura sessuale, su cui Freud avrebbe avuto molto da dire. Ma ce n'è anche una religiosa, in cui la dama incarna la Vergine Maria e l'unicorno è Cristo che riposa il capo nel suo grembo. Per me invece l'unicorno rappresenta quel lato misterioso e folle di noi stessi che cerchiamo di nascondere.”

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da Chevalier, l'arazzo erotico che si trasformò in bestseller https://web.archive.org/web/20160101000000/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2003/novembre/25/Chevalier_arazzo_erotico_che_trasformo_co_0_031125073.shtml, Corriere della sera, 25 novembre 2003

“Il cimitero [Highgate, a Londra] non è molto lontano da casa mia, l'idea di ambientare lì il romanzo [Quando cadono gli angeli] mi è venuta proprio facendo una passeggiata per quei viali. Mi sono completamente tuffata nella storia di questo luogo e mi sono resa conto di come, nei primi anni del Novecento, sia avvenuto un grosso cambiamento nelle celebrazioni funebri, nel modo di vivere il lutto. Mi piace raccontare il passato, mi sento più tranquilla, più sicura. Il presente mi fa più paura, è troppo soggettivo, chiunque ti può dire: "non è così, le cose stanno diversamente."”

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da Chevalier, amore e morte ai tempi delle suffragette https://web.archive.org/web/20160101000000/http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2002/maggio/24/Chevalier_amore_morte_tempi_delle_co_0_0205248408.shtml, Corriere della sera, 24 maggio 2002

Tracy Chevalier: Frasi in inglese

“I have consistently loved books that I've read when I've been sick in bed.”

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Tracy Chevalier

“It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.”

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Tracy Chevalier

“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”

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Origine: Girl With A Pearl Earring

“You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”

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Tracy Chevalier libro Girl with a Pearl Earring

Origine: Girl with a Pearl Earring

“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”

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Tracy Chevalier libro Girl with a Pearl Earring

Origine: Girl with a Pearl Earring

“I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home”

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Tracy Chevalier libro Girl with a Pearl Earring

Origine: Girl with a Pearl Earring

“Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.”

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“Over his shoulder I saw a star fall. It was me.”

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Tracy Chevalier libro Falling Angels

Origine: Falling Angels

“We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.”

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Tracy Chevalier libro Strane creature

Origine: Remarkable Creatures

“I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.”

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Tracy Chevalier libro Girl with a Pearl Earring

Origine: Girl with a Pearl Earring

“Say something worth the words.”

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“I live with them for a long time in my head. When I first start writing about a character, I don’t know them that well. It’s through the process of writing of putting them in scenes, and contemplating them—when I’ve spent more time with them—that they take on more flesh. When I start writing, I have a lot of characters that I’m not sure what their place in the novel will be…And some characters recede as I put more flesh on them. I think I don’t really need them; they’re not giving me anything. Or they’re there for a particular effect, and that’s it.”

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On how she formulates her characters in “An Interview with Tracy Chevalier” https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-tracy-chevalier/ in Fiction Writers Review (2019 Sep 23)

“Usually, I take great pleasure in finding a notebook that’s going to match the subject matter. And this time, for some reason, I was in a hurry. I hadn’t found the right one, I had started my research, and I couldn’t wait for the perfect notebook. So, I just grabbed one that I had. It’s the first time though, and it felt a little sad.”

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On choosing a notebook for each novel that she writes in “An Interview with Tracy Chevalier” https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-tracy-chevalier/ in Fiction Writers Review (2019 Sep 23)

“I have huge respect for short stories—I just find them much harder to get right than a novel. A novel is a lot baggier and it gives you more leeway to go on for too long or to make mistakes. Whereas in a short story, every sentence, every word, matters—and that’s very hard. I think it’s easier to write too much than it is to write exactly the right thing.”

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On how she compares short story writing to novel writing in “An Interview with Tracy Chevalier” https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-tracy-chevalier/ in Fiction Writers Review (2019 Sep 23)

“Dialogue is always tricky. Authenticity is almost impossible, and you always end up sounding too olde worlde. What I do is to strip the words back, so I get the dialogue to sound timeless…”

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On how she composes character dialogue in “Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/17/tracy-chevalier-interview-last-runaway in The Guardian (2013 Mar 16)