Kate Mosse Quotes

Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.

Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.

Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that.

When you're a writer, everything that interests you feeds into your work.

I know you're supposed to hide your influences, but I suppose I see writing as riffing, really, about whatever you have been reading or thinking about that day or that week.

If you're mostly a writer - if your point of departure is writing something - which for a writer/director is sort of where you start, you're really influenced by the writers you love one way or another.

When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.

I discovered that writing was very nice indeed when I was very young, and I never changed. I don't think my style has changed very much at all - though I hope what I say is a bit more interesting. It's about getting to know a character and loving them, I think.

Writing a novel - unlike operating a piece of heavy machinery, say, or cooking a chicken - is not a skill that can be taught. There is no standard way of doing it, just as there is no means of telling, while you're doing it, whether you're doing it well or badly. And merely because you've done it well once doesn't mean you can do it well again.

I just write the books that I think I would want to read.

I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe.

I knew I was a writer; I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't know what to write.

I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

I'm very interested in writing - it just takes so much discipline, whether it's short stories or novels.

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

Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.

I enjoy talking to groups who are interested in the writing process or the industry. I never teach - because truthfully, I don't know how it all works; it just does. Sort of magic-like. But I love to share my experiences and perspectives.

It's a lot to expect of yourself, to write a novel in a year. Anyway, you don't write a novel, you write a scene, and then another scene.

I like hearing other writers just about the way they approach writing. It gives me energy for my own work. It's weird; I'm always taking notes about fiction when I'm listening to people talk about craft.

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer.

Like many authors, I caught the writing bug during my teenage years. I don't remember the exact day or year, but I remember that reading S.E. Hinton's 'The Outsiders' sparked my interest in writing.

In order to write novels for a living - it's not pathological, but I do think and worry and brood and fidget about stuff that I'm working on.

I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write.

I never know how to give advice to a writer because there's so much you could say, and it's hard to translate your own experience. But of course, I always try. The main thing that I usually end up saying is to read a lot. To read a great deal and to learn from that.