Kate Morton Quotes
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Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.
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I want to be independent. To meet interesting people. ... I just mean new people with clever things to say. Things I've never heard before.…
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Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .
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It's special, grandparents and grandchldren. So much simpler. Is it always so, I wonder? I think perhaps it is. While one's child takes a part…
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In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later,…
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Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.
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I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.
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True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people…
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I love the structural part of the writing process.
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I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.
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I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
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In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.
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People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.
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There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
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Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now…
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Will history remember us, I wonder? I do hope so - to imagine that one might do something, touch an event somehow, & thereby transcend…
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It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into…
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... for home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children.
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I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I am interested--intrigued even--by the way time erases real lives, leaving only vague imprints. Blood and spirit fade…
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She did as she felt, and she felt a great deal.
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