“I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a b...” — Antonia Fraser Quote

“I realize that I had always in my heart of hearts planned to write a biography of Marie Antoinette.”

“I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.”

“I can't read historical fiction because I find the real thing so much more interesting.”

“I want the 'Book of Basketball' to do well if only so I can shop an absolutely ridiculous topic for my next book: like, a book about basketball cards, or an unauthorized biography of A. J. Daulerio.”

“In Peter Ackroyd's book 'London: The Biography,' he describes the route of the medieval wall that enclosed the original city. Take the book and follow it from the Tower of London via the Barbican to Ludgate Hill. You experience the real history of London.”

“I think a biography is only as interesting as the lives and times it illuminates.”