Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Quotes

I think every good story deserves to be told twice,

War in the Air: True Accounts of the 20th Century`s Most Dramamtic Air Battles by the Men Who Fought Them

It`s just people from various walks of life in Cuba and what might happen to them

That`s all it`s meant to be, ... This is not a literary fiction. This is page-turning fiction that you take to the beach and read for diversion. If I do that, I`ve done my job.

She said, `You know they just might have read `Under Siege` down there,` ... `I don`t want any phone calls from the State Department that you`re locked in some jail cell down there.`

`The Odyssey,` by Homer,

I had already done a two-chapter subplot on the second Cuban revolution in the book `Under Siege` in 1990,

When I got into it I realized that it needed Jake Grafton to give it an American center of focus that wouldn`t be there without a strong American hero,

I think there`s a lesson there for all story-tellers. It`s the same human themes and values from Day One. They`re still exactly the same. You just play with them in different settings, change them around to entertain the audience today.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.