Kate Mosse Quotes

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.

I like being a writer.

The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.

I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.

I sold a book six years after I left an MFA program. In between, there was a lot of endurance of poverty and a lot of fighting off doubt. It's all a part of the process of being or becoming a writer.

Write. Finish things. Get them published. Write something else while you're waiting for someone to publish the first thing.

When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.

Winning the Pulitzer is wonderful and it's an honor and I feel so humbled and so grateful, but I think that I'll think of it very much as the final sort of final moment for this book and put it behind me along with the rest of the book, as I write more books.

I started blogging a decade ago because I like blogging. Writing's a kind of lonely thing to do, and I liked the idea of demystifying the process because I loved it as a kid and teenager and as somebody who wanted desperately to write.

I was definitely meant to be a young adult author, and I love it - I'm here to stay!

How lucky am I? Quite often I speak at book festivals, and people ask me how I got published. There's people who have been working on a book for as long as ten years, and I feel like such a cow.

I struggled for a long time to get anything published.

I love writing. It's one of my favorite jobs. Of the things I get to do, I love sitting in a room and coming up with ideas, and I love going home and pounding them out.

I didn't write a book. It wasn't for self-enrichment.

I don't even know how to define myself. I'm a person who writes. It's something I enjoy, and hopefully people enjoy it as well.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

Authors should be honored only for their works.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books. It may be the case that we all must write many books in order to achieve a few lasting ones - just as a young writer or poet might have to write hundreds of poems before writing his first significant one.

I wrote my first novel and my second novel in Chicago. It was the place where I became a writer. It's my favorite city.

It's that drama that drives authors, you know.

I am happy because I am no longer an author.

For a writer, published works are like fallen flowers, but the expected new work is like a calyx waiting to blossom.

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested in the creative process. I'm fascinated by the disparity between who we are on the outside, and what we have bubbling away inside us.

The best novel I wrote was one called 'Crusoe's Daughter,' which never won any prizes. But I was getting somewhere in that. I'm not sure I have in any of the others.