Love - 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 MosseLots of people have objections to prizes of all types, and it would be extraordinary if everybody agreed on anything that's worthwhile - they never do.
Kate MosseWhat we attempt to do is not without danger. What we attempt to do may not succeed. But it is right and it is just. We act for the good of all.
Kate MosseThereโs only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstoneโs or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.
Kate Mosse