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
writing airports bed
Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.
crime-novels crime thrillers
I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.
people
I really like people and I keep friendships. I have people from all parts of my life.
library bricks watches
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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.
thinking people serious
People think that I'm very serious.
reading book writing
Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.
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.
way steps
Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.
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.
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.
one-love persons
One cannot always marry the person one loves...
done
For when all else is done, only words remain. Words endure.
believe grief destiny
Do you believe you can change your destiny?' he (Sajhë) said, seeking an answer. Alice found herself nodding. 'Otherwise, what's the point? If we are simply walking a path preordained, then all the experiences that make us who we are - love, grief, joy, learning, changing - would count for nothing.