Kate Grenville famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Everything in his life had come down to the sensation of her fingers against his. The person he was, the history he carried within himself, every joy and grief he had ever experienced, slipped way like an irrelevant garment. He was nothing but skin, speaking to another skin, and between the skins there was no need to find any words.
-- Kate Grenville

#Grief #Joy #Skins
The idea of perfection can be a tyrant you should overthrow, to gain your freedom.
-- Kate Grenville

#Tyrants #Ideas #Perfection
I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest.
-- Kate Grenville

#Writing #Fiction #Want
Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid.
-- Kate Grenville

#Book #Way #Needs
I think we all waste a lot of time measuring ourselves up against impossible standards in lots of ways. We need to learn a few things, one of which being that physical beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, including a lot that the women's magazines have never even thought of.
-- Kate Grenville

#Thinking #Shapes #Way
I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.
-- Kate Grenville

#Book #Thinking #Quality
A big book is a hard thing to manage - I find the computer makes it easier to keep it in order, and to keep the old drafts (which I sometimes go back to) without drowning in paper.
-- Kate Grenville

#Book #Order #Paper

Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
Behind all art is an element of desire...Love of life, of existence, love of another human being, love of human beings is in some way behind all art â€” even the most angry, even the darkest, even the most grief-stricken, and even the most embittered art has that element somewhere behind it. Because how could you be so despairing, so embittered, if you had not had something you loved that you lost?
A dead grief is easier to bear than a live trouble.
Joy and growth come from following our deepest impulses, however foolish they may seem to some, or dangerous, and even though the apparent outcome may be defeat.
There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing.
Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness- happiness is a sort of atmosphere you can live in sometimes when you're lucky. Joy is a light that fills you with hope and faith and love.
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
In a photo shoot, you have to be very comfortable in your own skin. It's all about confidence-boosting and putting on armor.
You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.
Forensics had taught her that scars left tissue much tougher than skin.

Kate Grenville famous quotes

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