Quotessence
Home / Authors / Kate Morton
Kate Morton

Kate Morton Quotes

Author

Filter quotes by topic

AllPeopleWayBookGardenChildrenHomePersonsEliza MakepeaceMightFlowersKnowsNatures BeautyCassandra RyanIfsMemoriesThinkingWritingLightMomentsMystery Woman

Famous Kate Morton Quotes

“I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.”

LittlesBookSelfMomentsHandsWould BeSimpleObjectsMinesReturnReaderCrossesProfoundResponseLibraryAppearanceCopiesMumThreshold
Book:The Distant Hours: A Novel
Create image

“True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.”

PeopleThinkingBookSometimesPlayKnownUnderstoodIntelligentIllnessExtremesCuresIrrationalExtravagant
Book:The Kate Morton Collection: The House at Riverton and The Forgotten Garden
Create image

“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.”

KnowsFeelsWritingYearsWellsLongHas BeensI CanBookMightNightCoursesWorrySuccessfulPressureGenreOvernight SuccessLong Nights
Author:Kate Morton
Create image