"I sound contemptuous, but I am not. I……" — Kate Morton
"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 away so that only names and dates remain."
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114 Quotes by Kate Morton
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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.…
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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…
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In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
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Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a…
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