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Kate Grenville is an acclaimed Australian author, born on October 14, 1950. Her works are known for their profound character development and rich historical background, with notable titles including 'The Secret River' and 'The Nightingale'.

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Famous Kate Grenville Quotes

“My husband had no one and that must be why some central part of him, some steady sense of who he was, had years ago gone like a mouse to hide away in its hole. But he could never admit the pain. He had to transmute suffering into a blade, to punish the world that made him suffer.”

Pain Suffering

Book:A Room Made of Leaves

Source: A Room Made of Leaves

“There is just this, though, lass, that I can tell you, she said. Which is, life is long. It has more corners than you can count. A woman can do many things, but she has to bide her time.”

Life Lessons Waiting

Author:Kate Grenville

“That was a place a person had to travel through alone. I met there a cold indifferent truth: that every person -- even a loved person, and I was not loved -- was alone. On the whole globe, there was no one but myself, and I was shaken and torn down to the merest speck of being.”

Loneliness

Book:A Room Made of Leaves

Source: A Room Made of Leaves

“Until a thing was seen, could it be said to exist? And if his eye through the telescope were the one that brought a certain star into existence, did not that make him a creator?”

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Author:Kate Grenville

“He sat in the chapel for hours picking his way through fugues. A dozen notes, hardly music. But then those few notes spoke to each other, subject and answer, by repetition, by diminution, by augmentation, even looping backwards on themselves in a course like the retrograde motion of Mars. He listened as if he had as many ears as fingertips, and, like a blind man, could feel textures that were barely there. At the end of two or three pages of music he would hear all the voices twining together in a construction of such dizzying power that the walls of the chapel could barely contain it.”

Music Fugue Organ

Book:The Lieutenant

Source: The Lieutenant

“I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.”

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Author:Kate Grenville

“I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.”

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Author:Kate Grenville

“The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.”

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Author:Kate Grenville

“A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.”

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Author:Kate Grenville

“I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.”

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Author:Kate Grenville

“Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid.”

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Author:Kate Grenville

“Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words.”

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Author:Kate Grenville

About the Author

Born: October 14, 1950
Known for: Author
Quotes: 12

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