Kate Mosse
Kate Mosse
Katharine Louise Mosse OBE, or Kate Mosse, is an English novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and broadcaster. She is best known for her 2005 novel Labyrinth, which has been translated into more than 37 languages...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth20 October 1961
educational heart age
The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.
love-is color fool
Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.
memories life-is this-life
What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.
book reading fighting
Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
years differences amazon
There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.
succeed may danger
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.
writing echoes mind
There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.
loss grieving space
The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.
silence determined quiet
History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.
desire stronger wish
There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.
running integrity reading
All prizes have a role, if they are run with integrity and with a clear focus on reading and quality writing. I don't think any of them is necessary, but they all play an incredibly important role in building a body of literature, in introducing new authors to new readers, and extending reading.
reading book writing
Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
views issues long
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.
library bricks watches
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.