American author
Isn't it just as much the duty of the police to free the innocent, as to bring the guilty to justice?
SUSANNE ALLEYN
Game of Patience
Two of the most productive writers in history, Voltaire and Balzac, were also among the greatest coffee addicts in history. So far, caffeine hasn't made me nearly that productive, but I can hope.
SUSANNE ALLEYN
interview, Just One More Page ... or Two, Nov. 1, 2010
Fiction, also--if done well--can perhaps allow the reader a greater feeling of recognition with people of the past. If we read a novel about people trying to control the Revolution, we're reading about them as people who have desires, ambitions, and neuroses just like ours, and we can relate to them, rather than seeing them just as stiff portraits with funny-looking hair--or as the one-dimensional monsters or saints that many pop histories have made them.
SUSANNE ALLEYN
interview, Fiction and Film for French Historians
Men are often like that. They grow bored with simple goodness and want a woman who is dangerous, a challenge.
SUSANNE ALLEYN
Game of Patience
All you can do, every day, is to learn the truth as best you can.
SUSANNE ALLEYN
Game of Patience
Women, of whatever age, share secrets with each other more readily than they share them with men.
SUSANNE ALLEYN
Game of Patience
Essentially I am a history geek trapped somewhere between the creative arts and academic scholarship. The natural result of this is to become an author of historical fiction.
SUSANNE ALLEYN
interview, Fiction and Film for French Historians
Men can sleep with a different woman every night and indulge in the most revolting practices--but let an unmarried woman make one mistake, be led astray when she's young and silly and knows nothing of the world, and she's tainted for life and called a harlot!
SUSANNE ALLEYN
Game of Patience
Love can make people do funny things, inexplicable things. And thwarted love can turn some people into madmen--or madwomen. People who never had much of a grip on reality, sometimes they spin pretty illusions ... and when the illusion shatters, they become capable of anything.
SUSANNE ALLEYN
Game of Patience
There are times, too, when the law doesn't give a damn who gets caught beneath its wheels.
SUSANNE ALLEYN
Game of Patience
I cannot even earn a living as a whore.
SUSANNE ALLEYN
Palace of Justice