Kate Mosse Quotes

The wish precedes the event, the will accompanies it.

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

When the opportunity is there, when the impulse is there

Thought is the seed of action.

The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

He who does not want does not act.

Action, reaction, motivation, emotion, all have to come from the characters. Writing a love scene requires the same elements from the writer as any other.

Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.

Ideas lead to actions.

If a motive affects me, and I am compelled to act on it because it proves to be the 'strongest' of its kind, then the thought of freedom ceases to have any meaning. How should it matter to me whether I can do a thing or not, if I am forced by the motive to do it?

Sometimes you don't know why but you feel attracted to do something.

People will fight hard for something they want or something they don't want, that they don't believe a character would do.

People act on what they want more often than what they need.

There's no way of telling why you want to do things beforehand. Something just grabs you. It might not grab you six months later, and it might not have grabbed you six months before, but at that particular moment it grabs you, so you jump on it.

Wishing is not acting. But willing is acting.

Momentum,' She repeats. 'You can't just stand there if you want something to fly. You have to run.

At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it.

Wanting to leave is enough.

Each decision we make, each action we take, is born out of an intention.

At certain times you really feel as though you have to do something.

There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.

I think the action is ninety-three percent, and the consideration is peppered throughout but pretty short... Once I start it, I feel as though I don't want to look over my shoulder too much. I want to trust the preparations I've made.

Behavior is motivation filtered through opportunity.