Quotes by : Stacy Schiff

Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large....

We have believed in any number of things - the tooth fairy, cold fusion, and benefits of smoking, the....

Aikhenvald saw Véra as a fearless guide to Vladimir on “the poetic path.” She was on every count....

And in the absence of facts, myth rushes in, the kudzu of history.

Confronted afterward, she claimed no knowledge of that bedroom tryst; she did not intend to be held responsible....

I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost.....

Like any oppressed people, they defined themselves by what offended them, which would give New England....

History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather to her brains, to reduce....

Blind passion was one thing, all-knowing intimacy a rarer commodity.