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    Kate Mosse

    Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

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    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.

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    Do you believe you can change your destiny?' he (Sajhë) said, seeking an answer. Alice found herself nodding. 'Otherwise, what's the point? If we are simply walking a path preordained, then all the experiences that make us who we are - love, grief, joy, learning, changing - would count for nothing.

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    Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

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    History is written by the victors, the strongest, the most determined. Truth is found most often in the silence, in the quiet places.

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    I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

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    I read a lot of thrillers, especially American crime novels.

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    Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

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    Lots 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.

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    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.

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    People 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.

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    The 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.

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    The message is clear: libraries matter. Their solid presence at the heart of our towns sends the proud signal that everyone - whoever they are, whatever their educational background, whatever their age or their needs - is welcome.

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    There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

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    There is no pattern the human mind can devise that does not exist already within the bounds of nature...Everything we do, see, write, notate, all are an echo of the deep seams of the universe. Music is the invisible world made visible through sound.

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    There's no black and no white, just shades of grey...But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded.

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    There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s 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.

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    Too often I am jealous and my jealousy leads me to say things-things-that I regret.

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    Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

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    What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

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    The colour of the magpie, her father was saying, was symbolic of creation. The void, the mystery of that which had not yet taken form. Black and white, he said. Presence and absence.

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    The thinnest shaft of light entered the empty chambers of my heart, just for a moment. Then it disappeared, extinguished by the weight of all that had gone before.

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    Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.