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Tracy Chevalier, née le 19 octobre 1962 à Washington, est une écrivaine américaine. Spécialisée dans les romans historiques, elle habite Londres depuis 1984 avec son mari et son fils. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. octobre 1962   •   Autres noms Թրեյսի Շևալյե, Трейсі Шевальє
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“Elle se sentait tellement déconcertée par la contradiction existant entre ce qu'elle pensait et ce qu'on espérait d'elle qu'elle était incapable de parler. Peut-être valait-il mieux qu'elle se taise, en attendant d'être plus sûre de ce qu'elle voulait dire. Ainsi ses paroles ne pourraient-elles être déformées et lui être renvoyées à la figure.”

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The Last Runaway

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“He saw things in a way that others did not, so that a city I had lived in all my life seemed a different place, so that a woman became beautiful with the light on her face.”

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Source: Girl With A Pearl Earring

“You're so calm and quiet, you never say. But there are things inside you. I see them sometimes, hiding in your eyes.”

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Tracy Chevalier livre Girl with a Pearl Earring

Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring

“Yes, well, life is a folly. If you live long enough, nothing is surprising.”

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Tracy Chevalier livre Girl with a Pearl Earring

Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring

“I had walked along that street all my life, but had never been so aware that my back was to my home”

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Tracy Chevalier livre Girl with a Pearl Earring

Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring

“Jane Austen easily used half a page describing someone else's eyes; she would not appreciate summarizing her reading tastes in ten titles.”

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“We say very little, for we do not need to. We are silent together, each in her own world, knowing the other is just at her back.”

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Tracy Chevalier livre Remarkable Creatures

Source: Remarkable Creatures

“I wanted to wear the mantle and the pearls. I wanted to know the man who painted her like that.”

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Tracy Chevalier livre Girl with a Pearl Earring

Source: Girl with a Pearl Earring

“I live with them for a long time in my head. When I first start writing about a character, I don’t know them that well. It’s through the process of writing of putting them in scenes, and contemplating them—when I’ve spent more time with them—that they take on more flesh. When I start writing, I have a lot of characters that I’m not sure what their place in the novel will be…And some characters recede as I put more flesh on them. I think I don’t really need them; they’re not giving me anything. Or they’re there for a particular effect, and that’s it.”

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On how she formulates her characters in “An Interview with Tracy Chevalier” https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-tracy-chevalier/ in Fiction Writers Review (2019 Sep 23)

“Usually, I take great pleasure in finding a notebook that’s going to match the subject matter. And this time, for some reason, I was in a hurry. I hadn’t found the right one, I had started my research, and I couldn’t wait for the perfect notebook. So, I just grabbed one that I had. It’s the first time though, and it felt a little sad.”

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On choosing a notebook for each novel that she writes in “An Interview with Tracy Chevalier” https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-tracy-chevalier/ in Fiction Writers Review (2019 Sep 23)

“I have huge respect for short stories—I just find them much harder to get right than a novel. A novel is a lot baggier and it gives you more leeway to go on for too long or to make mistakes. Whereas in a short story, every sentence, every word, matters—and that’s very hard. I think it’s easier to write too much than it is to write exactly the right thing.”

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On how she compares short story writing to novel writing in “An Interview with Tracy Chevalier” https://fictionwritersreview.com/interview/an-interview-with-tracy-chevalier/ in Fiction Writers Review (2019 Sep 23)

“Dialogue is always tricky. Authenticity is almost impossible, and you always end up sounding too olde worlde. What I do is to strip the words back, so I get the dialogue to sound timeless…”

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On how she composes character dialogue in “Tracy Chevalier: 'Slavery has to be raised until it's put to bed'” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/17/tracy-chevalier-interview-last-runaway in The Guardian (2013 Mar 16)

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