Anne Perry Quotes

"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."
- Anne Perry
(Related: Time, Thought, People, Mystery, Skill, Wit, Writers)

"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."
- Anne Perry
(Related: People, End)

"We believe world peace is inevitable."
- Anne Perry
(Related: Peace, World)

"The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse."
- Anne Perry
(Related: War, Sacrifice, Fighting, Loss, Question, Will, Worth)

"Of course there will be disappointments and the way will not always be as I expected it. But if it seemed easy, then that would be the time to worry that I am on the wrong path."
- Anne Perry
(Related: Time, Disappointments, Will, Worry, Wrong)

"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."
- Anne Perry
(Related: Health, Life, War, EnglFirst, London, Months, Years)

"I did a complete rewrite of 650 pages in two weeks."
- Anne Perry

"I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous."
- Anne Perry
(Related: Challenge, Now)

"Americans sometimes say to me that they have no class system themselves. All human beings have class systems. It can be based on a different thing in a different country, but the thing about breeding is, you can't buy it. You can't buy class."
- Anne Perry
(Related: Americans, Breeding, Class, Country)

"I wonder how often in the past I may have missed the good in people because I pre-judged, based on the differences?"
- Anne Perry
(Related: People, May, Past, Wonder)