Katharine Weber Quotes

• Life seems sometimes like nothing more than a series of losses, from beginning to end. That's the given. How you respond to those losses, what you make of what's left, that's the part you have to make up as you go.

  Katharine Weber

  Loss, Sometimes, Ends

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.118, Crown

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• But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.

  Katharine Weber

  Eye, Mean, People

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.16, Crown

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• I am in awe of the perpetual tumult of the sea. I am moved by the still place on the horizon where the sky begins. I am stirred by the soaring and dipping fields that make the landscape into a rumpled green counterpane. I thought I would never have such powerful feelings again. I thought I would live through the rest of my life having experiences, and thoughts, but I never thought I would again feel deeply-- I was convinced that my wounds had healed and become thick scars, essentially numb.

  Katharine Weber

  Powerful, Sea, Sky

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.19, Crown

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• I do love competence in a man.

  Katharine Weber

  Men, Competence

  Katharine Weber (2011). “The Music Lesson: A Novel”, p.23, Crown

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• This is a great mind at work examining itself. This is where literature comes from.

  Katharine Weber

  Mind, Literature, Great Minds

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• Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.

  Katharine Weber

  Book, Land, Mind

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• Marie Houzelle is a master of the first-person narrative. In Tita she has created a strange, utterly original child whose deadpan certainties are a beguiling invitation to readers of all ages.

  Katharine Weber

  Children, Age, Narrative

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