Kate Grenville
Related AARON SORKIN I've been asked to write an autobiography, and I've started it a couple of times, on differe... JOHN SAXON ANN HOOD JACKIE COLLINS CHARLES FRAZIER I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - ... KARRINE STEFFANS JUDITH JAMISON BEN ELTON DAVID THEWLIS My only qualifications to be an actor were that I'm daring, and I'm a quick learner. I'v... COLMAN DOMINGO I've always wanted to write an airport book. ELIZABETH HAND PETER JENNINGS MAYA ANGELOU I've had a lot of girls reach out to me about struggling with body image. I've only been abl... TROIAN BELLISARIO ELMORE LEONARD You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno... A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd hav... EDDIE CAMPBELL ED SHEERAN JERRY SPINELLI I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, ... KAREN THOMPSON WALKER As for my own music, I've never written a book about it. I'm not pedagogical... When I write... SAMUEL BARBER DAVID FRIEDMAN ACE FREHLEY I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have... SIMON TOYNE After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom I wanted to write about next. I said, 'There&... A. SCOTT BERG GARTH NIX I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - bu... YURI LOWENTHAL Bernard Shaw said that when you copy yourself, you know you've got style. And I feel that if you... BRUCE ROBINSON JACKIE COLLINS ERICA JONG You just write what you know, and I know what it's like to be a teenager in 1993,, and I'm a... MAGGIE CAREY I'm a big eater. I mean, a lot of my stand-up is about food, and you write about what you know, ... JIM GAFFIGAN If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a char... JEZ BUTTERWORTH BRIAN JACQUES The idea that I am cynical because I'm writing the books that I write is a bit like someone sayi... BEN SCHOTT I'd love to maybe try writing. I don't know if I'd publish anything, but as a hobby, it&... EMMA ROBERTS I've never wanted to live in a ghetto or write in a ghetto. I want to write about a world that r... VAL MCDERMID JACQUELINE EMERSON I am songwriter. I do compose the music of songs that I write in Bengali. But I've never thought... ARIJIT SINGH JULIA GLASS TOM PETERS MATT APUZZO I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book. SARA PARETSKY ZARA LARSSON While I'm writing, I'm also the first reader, and I want to write a book where I'm excit... HAKAN NESSER I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN GRAHAM SWIFT LYNDA BARRY I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can opera... KATE GRENVILLE AARON NEVILLE I've been wanting to write a book about what goes into creating a novel, and the story behind &#... DAMON GALGUT I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately, I ... EVE BUNTING IDINA MENZEL KAREN JOY FOWLER I think, with age, you learn that it comes in bursts and you've got no control over it. I'm ... PAUL WELLER RAY CHARLES With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book... DAN PINK JIM HARRISON MARK HADDON GAVIN HOOD I'm actually writing history. It isn't what you'd call big history. I don't write ab... LOUIS L'AMOUR When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ... JUDY BLUME KARRIE WEBB If someone's going to talk about me, I'd want it to be positively. The way many write, you&#... DOROTHY STRATTEN RAINBOW ROWELL I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can'... CAROLINE LEAVITT I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an ent... BEN CASNOCHA BARRY EISLER LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA KELSEA BALLERINI M. STANTON EVANS WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN It's like I'm thin skinned, I guess, but I thought I could never write about my youth for th... GREG MOTTOLA CASSANDRA CLARE I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it on... VICTORIA WOOD ANDREW MOTION 'Made it as a writer'? I'm still wondering if I've made it as a writer. I've mad... ERIC BROWN I try to write 1,000 words. Some people say it's not about the quantity but about the quality. I... NATHANIEL RICH CANDACE BUSHNELL Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everythin... RAINER WERNER FASSBINDER JERRY SPINELLI I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso... PATRICK DUFFY TEJU COLE LISA LOEB AUGUST WILSON SALMAN RUSHDIE LANA DEL REY JACKIE EVANCHO TEJU COLE DAVID BOWIE If I think of a reader while I am writing, the only reader who really matters for me is my wife. It&... ALEXI ZENTNER I've always kept writing. There's never been a moment where I went through a spell where I j... CASSADEE POPE It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know... EARL SWEATSHIRT GEORGE R. R. MARTIN WILBUR SMITH ALBERT BROOKS If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can&... ELLA HENDERSON I've always had that attitude about my career: it's something that I do, but it's not my... BUFFY SAINTE-MARIE I never learned to be a writer. I never took screenwriting courses. I never read anyone's script... DEREK CIANFRANCE I don't write all my stuff. Everybody always thinks that. But in just about every album I've... ALAN JACKSON
More Kate Grenville
Each language has its own take on the world. That's why a translation can never be absolutely ex... KATE GRENVILLE Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something ... KATE GRENVILLE I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can opera... KATE GRENVILLE I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that thi... KATE GRENVILLE I think with all my books, language has been their subject as much as anything else. Language can el... KATE GRENVILLE I would never write a sentence that didn't have a nice rhythm, or at least I wouldn't leave ... KATE GRENVILLE Words are a pretty blunt instrument. There's always going to be slippage between the words and t... KATE GRENVILLE 'The Secret River' began because, at the age of 50, I suddenly realised I knew nothing about... KATE GRENVILLE I read a lot of poetry, and I love what it does with language. I love music, too, and I think there&... KATE GRENVILLE I'm a great believer in the experiential theory of writing. KATE GRENVILLE A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment.... KATE GRENVILLE One of the things I love about writing is the way you can use what you know and what you've expe... KATE GRENVILLE I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me t... KATE GRENVILLE When I went to university in Colorado, I was encouraged to write very innovative, experimental thing... KATE GRENVILLE Australia lives with a strange contradiction - our national image of ourselves is one of the Outback... KATE GRENVILLE He had seen God in the night sky long before he understood its patterns. KATE GRENVILLE Until you could put yourself at some point beyond your own world, looking back at it, you would neve... KATE GRENVILLE What he had not learned from Latin or Greek he was learning from the people of New South Wales. It w... KATE GRENVILLE Man had been given a brain that could think in numbers, and it could not be coincidence that the wor... KATE GRENVILLE it crossed Farren's mind that although death seemed big, life was even bigger KATE GRENVILLE GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER I am shocked frankly that it is high as 13 percent in the US, because the US is one of the most reli... ANDREW GRENVILLE There is a thriving privatized faith. ANDREW GRENVILLE A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity, but a weak one is... GEORGE GRENVILLE A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity. GEORGE GRENVILLE GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER I'm just putting the puck on net, and I'm getting dirty goals. I'm not trying to get a pretty goal. ... CHRIS GRENVILLE GRENVILLE KLEISER GRENVILLE KLEISER Confusion is a continuous fight with self-knowledge, prejudice and insecurity. KATE I have an insane calling to be where i'm not, and a screaming urge to get out of here. There's no ro... KATE That feeling of shame and guilt you feel, when you disappoint someone, equals the feeling of never b... KATE If you are wondering why some people don't want to talk to you anymore, it could be that they actual... KATE Amazing how you can fake you're way through the day, by looking at the clock, and work untill it's t... KATE The people who never wanted to meet you, will never know what you would have sounded like together! KATE More then a thousand words written, but no notes to make a song.
It shouldn't be this hard, and it s... KATE Let's just lay in the grass, and look at the stars, and fall asleep in the middle of counting. KATE Better focus on what seems to be more important, then what make's me feel more alive...
But the thou... KATE Why do people get back in the box ?,
when deep down inside there isn't room enough.
And even though ... KATE Reading between the lines is supposed to lift you up, except when the message reminds you of the mis... KATE Tic tac, tic tac.
Three o clock, it's time to stop,
Thinking about what is not.
Tic tac, tic tac
May... KATE Being confused about you're own insecurity's, when other people turn out to be not what they seem, a... KATE Those little boxes people put you in, while they should try the other sizes... KATE Sometimes I forget how it feels to meet new people who are passionate about the same things.
But whe... KATE Glistening grains of sand, so soft and warm
being sleepless in the desert has it's charm.
A billion ... KATE Is it okay to lose you'reself once in a while.....
Maybe I am lost longer then I think.... KATE They won't chase me wen I walk away. Not worth chasing I gues,... so I'll just keep on walking alone... KATE No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.......
Now I know what I did wrong all the ti... KATE Don't approach someone with false intensions, especcialy when they are not good enough. Because ther... KATE My sore throath can't find my voice anywere, and my thought's can't find my sleep. KATE Time is precious....I would love to spend a day how I really want to spend it...or maybe a few.. KATE Back to the corner where you came from, and dim that little light, before it finally discover's how ... KATE I tried to stop the morning coming in so fast
Why is it impossible to make those silent moments last... KATE I need a whiskey (or 2) , a party, and some fun,
but it looks like I have to settle for less again. KATE You can listen to a song a thousand times, and then, suddenly, the lyrics kick in,.... like someone ... KATE If water would be running up,
would it wash away the spots,
underneath the places, where we usually ... KATE No one knows that a simple and calculated decision for the one with potential, is the final end of t... KATE LAUREN KATE KATE MIDDLETON KATE FORSYTH KATE MOSS KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON KATE KLISE Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doi... KATE ATKINSON KATE CHOPIN KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET KATE WINSLET British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, ho... KATE WILLIAMS People are not happy with women in actual power, yet we seem to be happy to take women on as figureh... KATE WILLIAMS When I was a child, one of my first games was a time machine which I made for my brother - a big box... KATE WILLIAMS I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors. KATE WILLIAMS One woman came up to me at a lecture and observed that I was much fatter than on television; I think... KATE WILLIAMS I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it'... KATE WILLIAMS Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for the... KATE WILLIAMS I've written extensively on Queen Victoria and Queen Elizabeth and seen up close how those women... KATE WILLIAMS The 19th century became the age of the museum. Objects were scrambled for, specimens seized, and fri... KATE WILLIAMS Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history... KATE WILLIAMS I really enjoy watching TV; it offers an amazing window, and its an incredible way of presenting his... KATE WILLIAMS Precise historical reasons are difficult to pinpoint, but red hair, it seems, bestows a sense of oth... KATE WILLIAMS The modern museum has multiple purposes - to curate and preserve, to research, and to reach out to t... KATE WILLIAMS Usually, historical revelations come from days of legwork, ploughing through piles of letters and pa... KATE WILLIAMS I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems tha... KATE WILLIAMS Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth a... KATE WILLIAMS Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in pow... KATE WILLIAMS I like boxes because of the secrets they hide. KATE WILLIAMS The British Museum was our first real museum, the property of the public rather than the monarch or ... KATE WILLIAMS I am part of a team organising an Emma Hamilton exhibition for the National Maritime Museum for 2016... KATE WILLIAMS Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 m... KATE WILLIAMS Acting was all I ever really wanted to do. KATE WALSH For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, ... KATE WALSH Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if ... KATE WALSH I struggle with control. KATE WALSH I loved campaigning for Obama. KATE WALSH My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back. KATE WALSH I still like to make crank calls. KATE WALSH I would definitely love to be a parent. KATE WALSH No matter what job you do, we all have a much different life than our parents had. My parents' g... KATE WALSH There are lots of different ways for women to be a mom in this culture. KATE WALSH I'm not a clean freak. My house is a mess. KATE WALSH I've done every diet there is. KATE WALSH Sometimes I hope that through osmosis I might get a workout - just by wearing the clothes. KATE WALSH I have always been the girl who keeps on trying. I try! I try! KATE WALSH You never want to rest on your laurels. You want to keep doing things that terrify you. KATE WALSH I think a lot of people just aren't aware how young you can be and be diagnosed with breast canc... KATE WALSH I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead. KATE WALSH I'm lucky. I've got pretty good genes. KATE WALSH I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day. KATE WALSH People always say you can't do a red lip if you have red hair but I've never shied away from... KATE WALSH I second-guess myself all the time. I make a decision and then wonder if I made the wrong choice. KATE WALSH I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine. KATE WALSH I drink tons of water. When you're puffy, you think you can't drink water since you feel mor... KATE WALSH I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails. KATE WALSH I consider myself a songwriter before anything else. The fact that I have been able to write both of... KATE VOEGELE I am very busy and don't have a lot of down time, but I write my best songs in those situations.... KATE VOEGELE I always try to be very human in my performances and hang out with my fans. It is cool to be a celeb... KATE VOEGELE I used to bring my sketchbook to gym class and doodle, because I am a very uncoordinated athlete. KATE VOEGELE My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these song... KATE VOEGELE More than anything I want to get up there and hang out with the audience, make everybody feel like i... KATE VOEGELE I've always had a bazillion songs in my archive, but I want to play people stuff they know. Now ... KATE VOEGELE Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences ... KATE VOEGELE KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO KATE DICAMILLO We really got a lot of very conservative gay people. You could look at the figures from the last ele... KATE CLINTON They didn't even like Margaret Thatcher but at least there was Margaret Thatcher. There have bee... KATE CLINTON My style has been pretty much like a newspaper. It's got politics in it, it's got media, spo... KATE CLINTON Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefo... KATE CLINTON I'm really happy that I was raised Catholic because it's given me years of material. KATE CLINTON I consider a CD or a comedy collection as a record of what I've been doing, and I try to wrap it... KATE CLINTON What goes for sex goes double for politics. KATE CLINTON We signed up for Showtime, which I think put us on a Homeland Security list somewhere. KATE CLINTON I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want... KATE CLINTON I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think i... KATE CLINTON As you can imagine I'm disappointed as anything that I was not selected to be the presidential r... KATE CLINTON Lesbian humor isn't trying to sell anything, it doesn't have to sell out. Coming out as a le... KATE CLINTON When my brother-in-law, BIll Clinton, was elected, he had gay friends. That was a coming out. KATE CLINTON I try something new every night. It's an hour show; if it works I maybe try it a few more times ... KATE CLINTON A friend of mine said, no matter what I do I always look like an English teacher. She actually said,... KATE CLINTON Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one. KATE CLINTON I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sund... KATE CLINTON KATE CHRISTENSEN KATE CHRISTENSEN KATE CHRISTENSEN KATE CHRISTENSEN KATE CHRISTENSEN KATE CHRISTENSEN
I've never written anything that I haven't wanted to write again. I want to, and still am, w... 
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... 
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you... 
I've always thought Harper Lee might have made a great decision. Much as you'd like to have ... 
My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'L... 
I loved writing 'Two Brothers' more than anything else I have written. It's the first bo... 
I've always tended to write comedy, but I'd hate to just write some kind of sitcom or a ligh... 
I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America. 
It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a m... 
I would say just start writing. You've got to write every day. Copy someone that you like if you... 
I've never dated anyone in Hollywood - or anyone famous, for that matter. I don't know that ... 
I would say if you want to write, write what you care about. I think that's the most important t... 
When my writing really started to take off was when I made a decision that I would write only what I... 
I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I th... 
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good bo... 
I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k... 
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented... 
I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher cou... 
For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the... 
The old adage is, 'Write what you know.' But if you only do that, your work becomes claustro... 
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i... 
When I write that I've known about something for a long time, that's not a boast. That's... 
For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. ... 
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It... 
I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to ... 
I write poetry on my iPhone. I've got about 100 poems on there. 
That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences a... 
I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had ... 
I don't know about other writers, but for myself, to write I must be relatively quiet - it's... 
I don't feel tentative when I start to write. I've usually thought about a novel or novella ... 
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with ... 
In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns... 
I still can't believe that I've achieved what I have. It's like I've lived a dream f... 
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story w... 
I've loved thrillers and spy stories since I was a kid. It's probably not a bad rule of thum... 
I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't... 
The fun thing about song writing is that it's just creative. It can be whatever you want it to b... 
I've written a lot of books in my time, and to write a book about Joe McCarthy and have some of ... 
It's fun for me to try to write concise, compact things. It's a very good exercise for me. A... 
You know that I had heard so many times people say things like, 'You could never write 'Harr... 
I've always thought that the balance between the side of my mind that knows what it is doing and... 
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it... 
I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, ... 
The most common thing I find is very brilliant, acute, young people who want to become writers but t... 
There's a variety and depth to the song topics I get to write about in children's music and ... 
I don't write particularly to effect social change. I believe writing can do that, but that'... 
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I wr... 
A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New Y... 
I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, t... 
When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each ot... 
I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa... 
One of the big breakthroughs, I think for me, was reading Robert A. Heinlein's four rules of wri... 
I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignor... 
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I n... 
People who have attained things worth having in this world have worked
while others have idled, have... 
To every problem there is already a solution whether you know it or not. 
It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse ... 
Be fearless. Be glib. Be enigmatic. Read. Never give up. 
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... 
Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and... 
I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like... 
Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All... 
I like that there's no love as fierce as the love you feel for your family; that there's no ... 
So the storm passed and every one was happy. 
I need to be looked after. I'm not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy st... 
Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't tu... 
Ah... romance to me is spontaneity. It's not diamond earrings; it's a bunch of daffodils tha... 
I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults. 
I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading. 
I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children. 
I'm not a foodie - I'm an eater: I'm hungry. 
I've always had rock star envy. Unfortunately, writing is a pedestrian, tame occupation done whi... 
I grew up in an all-female family - two sisters and a mostly single mother - and we often bonded, in... 