Kate Morton Quotes - Page 5

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• It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

  Kate Morton

  Character, Funny Things, People

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Taken, Character

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.401, Simon and Schuster

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• Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.

  Kate Morton

  Thinking, Smell, Air

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who live in memories are never really dead." The House At Riverton

  Kate Morton

  Memories, House

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• When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

  Kate Morton

  Sleep, Monsters, Reason

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Distant Hours”, p.438, Pan Macmillan

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• Better to lose oneself in action than to wither in despair.

  Kate Morton

  Despair, Action, Oneself

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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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. I want to be free. Open to whatever adventure comes along and sweeps me off my feet.

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  Clever, Mean, Independent

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Doors lead to things and I've never met one I haven't wanted to open.

  Kate Morton

  Doors, Mets, Wanted

  Kate Morton (2011). “The Distant Hours: A Novel”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• I love the structural part of the writing process.

  Kate Morton

  Writing, Process, Writing Process

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• I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Given, Given Up

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• People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

  Kate Morton

  Writing, Thinking, People

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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 feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.

  Kate Morton

  Book, Writing, Successful

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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 the bounds of a single human lifetime!

  Kate Morton

  Events, Might, Remember

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.323, Simon and Schuster

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• Hope's one thing, expectation's quite another.

  Kate Morton

  Expectations, One Thing

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