Kate Morton Quotes
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Once you research an idea, you begin to develop a perspective. Writing about anything in public, often in real time, has helped fashion my views.
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I have a complicated relationship with the horror genre. I love it; I loved it as a kid growing up, and I watched Chiller Theater in New York. So I loved it, but then you do feel if you do it too much, you're stuck there.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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I love England from head to toe. I love the weather, the people. I was there in the summer and it was nice. The people are so groovy.
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I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
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What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
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It's a fallen world. We eat and sacrifice in the process.
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There's something different that happens when you're writing a song for your own record that you know you're going to sing.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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I don't talk about Amy Winehouse as a 'singer.' She's a pioneer. I listened to her endlessly when I started writing.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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I can be collaborative, for instance, in situations where I go and study the artist's work before I start writing. Then I can at least try to write towards their style.
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Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
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I don't look like Brad Pitt or Tom Cruise. When you put me on the screen, the women don't want to make love to me, and the men don't want to be me.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
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I keep only a small edit in my wardrobe because I think it is important to keep things moving through, and I like to find out which pieces from my collections work and which could be reworked and improved.
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Come on, planning a wedding, let's be honest, it's not fun. It's not fun being in a wedding.
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If someone's being less than courteous to you, I don't think you need to pay any attention to them.
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What I have proposed would be paid for by raising taxes on the wealthy, because they have made all the gains in the economy.
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I love the structural part of the writing process.
