Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsor
Kathleen Winsorwas an American author. She is best known for her first work, the 1944 romantic novel Forever Amber. The novel, racy for its time, became a runaway bestseller even as it drew criticism from some authorities for its depictions of sexuality. She wrote seven other novels, none of which matched the success of her debut...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth16 October 1919
CountryUnited States of America
Kathleen Winsor quotes about
inspirational life karma
Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.
hard-work genius hard
The only genius that's worth anything is the genius for hard work.
advice publicity agents
There's an old press-agents' slogan that's good advice: Don't read your publicity - weigh it.
wire relief certain
the end of anything is a relief. In every relationship, even the most valuable, there are certain unpleasant tensions - and the ending of it snaps those taut inner wires.
sex two people
[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.
success success-failure harder
success is often harder to take than failure ...
success hate thinking
I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.
war stranger bedfellows
war makes strangers bedfellows ...
matter nothing-matters
Everything matters, but nothing matters very much.
writing people paint
... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them.
hands experience firsts
I guess experience is just learning at first hand the things you knew all along anyway.
amusement adultery crime
Adultery is not a crime, it's an amusement.
wickedness thrive wells
If you had better sense you’d have learned by now that nothing thrives so well as wickedness
half alive moments
It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.