I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what to use to construct a re…

- Melanie Benjamin

What very mysterious things days were. Sometimes they fly by, and other times they seem to last forever, yet they are all exactly twenty-four hours. …

- Melanie Benjamin

Most readers of historical fiction are content to just get caught up in a good story, and that is what I want to do as an author. I am not concerned …

- Melanie Benjamin

I see things beyond what other people see. I am always looking for hidden corners and closets of a life that I feel aren't explored either by the per…

- Melanie Benjamin

My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in sighs and glances and dista…

- Melanie Benjamin

Why, then, did I always feel as if his happiness was my responsibility? It wasn't fair for him to burden me with that. It had never been fair.

- Melanie Benjamin

But oh my dear, I am tired of being Alice in Wonderland. Does it sound ungrateful? It is. Only I do get tired.

- Melanie Benjamin

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

- Melanie Benjamin

There is always so much talk about the sins of the fathers but it is the sins of the mothers that are the most difficult to avoid repeating.

- Melanie Benjamin