Kate Mosse Quotes

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

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• I guess becoming an adult and learning how to survive on your own is exciting.

  

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• It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.

  

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• I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.

  

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• I divide criticism into two categories - one coming from those who understand music, who are worthy of being critical because they are knowledgeable about what they are saying; and then there is another category of people who would criticise you anyway, whether your work is good or bad.

  

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• The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.

  

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• I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.

  

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• Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

  

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• Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

  

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• I really am an open book. I don't keep anything in at all, which is good and bad.

  

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• We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.

  

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• Computer games tend to be boys' games, warlike games with more violence. We have not spent enough time thinking through how to encourage more girls to be involved in computing before coming to college so they can see a possible career in information technology.

  

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• Presidents always want to do nice, noble, long-run things, and Congress is less keen to do so. We've seen that throughout the history of this country.

  

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• Israel, the Israelis, and the rest of the world have been brainwashed. They don't think of pre-1948, they have no idea Palestinians were in Israel, who we were before '48. As if we were born in 1948 according to them. They have no notion that we had a country, houses, rebelled against the Ottomans and the British. They think history in that region started in that moment.

  

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

  

  Kate Mosse
  • History
  • Research
  • Fiction