Kate Morton People Quotations

People might think writing is a hard business, but it's nowhere near acting.

She says there are stories everywhere and that people who wait for the right one to come along before setting pen to paper end up with very empty pages.

While I wasn't certain how I felt about spiritualists, I was certain enough about the type of people who were drawn to them. Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

...She's understood the power of stories. Their magical ability to refill the wounded part of people.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

She's one of the few people able to look beyond the lines on my face to see the twenty-year-old who lives inside.

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

Only people unhappy in the present seek to know the future.

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

... time had a way of moulding people into shapes they themselves no longer recognised ...

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?