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.
Kate MosseThe 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.
Kate MossePeople 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.
Kate MosseLibrary campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
Kate MosseLove - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.
Kate Mosse