Quotes About Author

Writing a novel is actually searching for victims. As I write I keep looking for casualties. The stories uncover the casualties.

I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.

The hero of 'Dark Powers' can touch murder victims and read their last memories.

As a writer, I've always felt it's my job to be extremely careful when writing about victims, especially women.

To the Left, Islam, like the rest of the 'Third World,' is one of the many victims of Western Imperialism.

Before I was elected to Congress, I worked in a courtroom. For years, I defended doctors and hospitals, and for years, I sued them on behalf of people who were victims of medical malpractice.

What we want to do is to give all children and grandchildren of Holocaust victims the opportunity to become Austrian citizens if they want to.

I wrote about the Serbs, because no one was writing about them, even if I also think about the Croat and Muslim victims.

The reason I have been so outspoken on antisemitism is that racism is racism - and my family have been victims of it.

Technology enabled Rappler's fast growth starting in 2012, but we were also among the first victims when social media was weaponized in 2016.

After Victor Paz's government, I was still in politics, but I personally spent a lot of time consulting and working with Argentina, with Peru, and in Brazil.

The relationship between Victoria Ocampo and Tagore is something every Bengali has heard about and there is a mystery attached to it. This mystery is enough to attract an actor.

I spent grade nine and ten going to school in Victoria. My parents lived there for 10 years.

Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.

I was a latecomer to romance, although I did read gothics. My father used to work for the 'Fort Worth Star-Telegram,' and their book reviewer, author Leonard Sanders, would pass on the gothics for my dad to give to me since Leonard didn't review gothics. I gobbled up books by Mary Stewart, Madeleine Brent, Victoria Holt and Phyllis Whitney.

I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.

To understand the current state of mind of both Sara Paretsky and her private detective alter ego, one must first roll back the clock to 1982, when Victoria Iphegenia Warshawski took her first investigative bow in 'Indemnity Only.'

I used to be very fascinated by Victorian stuff, and my best-known books, the 'Mortal Engines' series, have a sort of retro, Victorian vibe, despite being set in the far future.

Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.

Victorian literature was my subject at Harvard.

I am fascinated by history and particularly the Victorian era.

When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.

I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society.

I don't really believe in moral victories. You can have them when you're dealing with public opinion, but in litigation, you want to win the case. I want to win.