Tracy Chevalier

Person · Open Library

Works

130

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Film & TV

Writing

Known for

• I Hate Jane Austen — Self2017
• Girl with a Pearl Earring: And Other Treasures from the Mauritshuis — Self2015

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

France

Active from

1888-09-12

Active to

1972-01-01

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

304

Total plays

3,641

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype

   · 2001 · cited 20,837x

2. <i>EGFR</i> Mutations in Lung Cancer: Correlation with Clinical Response to Gefitinib Therapy

   · 2004 · cited 8,024x

3. Amazon's Mechanical Turk

   · 2011 · cited 7,765x

4. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,795x

5. Genome-wide atlas of gene expression in the adult mouse brain

   · 2006 · cited 5,273x

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Quotes

• “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.”
• “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.”
• “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…”
• “There are times when I'm hoping the reader will feel slightly sympathetic. She's in a marriage she should never have made and she's kind of stuck in this swamp. And she is, yes, self-centered and a terrible mother; but she also is misunderstood, I think, at times, and frustrated...”

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