Kate Mosse Quotes

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

One cannot always marry the person one loves...

Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.

People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.

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

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

Boots and guns had replaced banners and horses, but the story was the same. Men with black hearts. With black souls.

Music (is) woven into the fabric of the corporeal world.

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

It seemed wrong, she thought, that there should be such beauty in the world on a day like this.

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.

People think that I'm very serious.

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

And in the air around her, the echo of all those stifled hearts, trapped spirits, fluttered and sighed and breathed.

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

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

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

If we do not remember those who have gone before us, we are destined to repeat the same mistakes. We walk blind through time.

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

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

Music is a personal response to vibration.

What will happen will happen, whether I wish it or no. So, yes, I accept. It does not mean that I like it or wish it were not otherwise.

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

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

It was not how one lived, but how one chose to die.

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