Kate Mosse Quotes

• Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

  Kate Mosse

  Love Is, Color, Purpose

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• The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

  Kate Mosse

  Educational, Heart, Age

  "Author, author: Kate Mosse". www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

  Kate Mosse

  Who We Are, Causes

  Kate Mosse (2009). “The Winter Ghosts”, p.160, Hachette UK

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• There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.

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  Writing, Years, Differences

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• Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

  Kate Mosse

  Way, Steps

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• For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

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  Done

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• What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

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  Memories, Life Is, This Life

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• Do you believe you can change your destiny?' he (Sajhë) said, seeking an answer. Alice found herself nodding. 'Otherwise, what's the point? If we are simply walking a path preordained, then all the experiences that make us who we are - love, grief, joy, learning, changing - would count for nothing.

  Kate Mosse

  Grief, Believe, Destiny

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• Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

  Kate Mosse

  Writing, Airports, Bed

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• Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

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  Wish, Desire, Stronger

  Kate Mosse (2008). “Sepulchre”, p.382, Hachette UK

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• Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

  Kate Mosse

  Book, Reading, Fighting

  "Author, author: Kate Mosse". www.theguardian.com. December 10, 2010.

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• History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

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  Silence, Determined, Quiet

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• Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

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  Regret, Jealous, Leading Me

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• There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

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  Betrayal, White, Black

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• I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.

  Kate Mosse

  People

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• The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

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  Loss, Grieving, Echoes

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• People think that I'm very serious.

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  Thinking, People, Serious

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• All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.

  Kate Mosse

  Running, Integrity, Reading

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• I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

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  Real, Historical, Fans

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• What we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.

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  May, Succeed, Danger

  Kate Mosse (2012). “Citadel”, p.736, Hachette UK

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• There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.

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  Writing, Echoes, Mind

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• One cannot always marry the person one loves.

  Kate Mosse

  One Love, Persons

  Kate Mosse (2008). “Sepulchre”

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• Lots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.

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  People, Would Be, Type

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• I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

  Kate Mosse

  Crime Novels, Crime, Thrillers

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